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01-15-2008
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Listen Now - 03012008 | Download Audio - 03012008 Oliver Sacks on the musical brain
Dr. Oliver Sacks plays Chopin mazurkas on his piano in New York. Sometimes he hears them in his head, note perfect, without the piano. How can we 'imagine' music so powerfully and why does it make such an impact emotionally? Read Transcript
Thursday 03 January 2008
Listen Now - 10012008 | Download Audio - 10012008 Struck by Lightning: Oliver Sacks and the Musical Brain, Part 2
A doctor, making a call in a phone box in New York, was hit by a lightning bolt through the receiver. It reprogrammed his brain, making him obsessed by Chopin and learning to play the piano.
It helped ruin his marriage but gave him brand new talents. How could this happen? Oliver Sacks tells this case history, and others, from his book Musicophilia. Read Transcript
Thursday 10 January 2008
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03-07-2008
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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica  | Missed it but agree that the effects of music on the mind are often missed |
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A pity
1 BBC ABC only keep interviews for amonth or so
2. I haven't learnt or have memory for attcaching sound files to hypography posts
here is atranscript
No where near as good as the interview. Quote:
'I Think of Us as a Musical Species'
Oliver Sacks' new book "Musicophilia" deals with the mysteries of music and the brain. SPIEGEL speaks with him about the Jewish patient who had hallucinations of Nazi marching bands, the Tourette's percussion orchestra and about why he wants to kill people with iPods.
Acclaimed neurologist Oliver Sacks believes that humans are the only innately musical species.
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Acclaimed neurologist Oliver Sacks believes that humans are the only innately musical species.
SPIEGEL: Dr. Sacks, close your eyes and think about music. What do you hear?
Oliver Sacks: A Chopin mazurka is coming to me. It is one in B flat major, and I feel an itch in my hands to play it. I can sort of see the keyboard in front of me...
SPIEGEL: The tune, the mazurka, the keyboard. All of these seem to be present all of a sudden. How can that be?
Sacks: Don't all of us probably have latent powers and passions of one sort or another that can hit us unexpectedly?
SPIEGEL: You are obviously aware of your own passion for music. However, in your latest book, "Musicophilia," you claim that music can strike even completely unmusical people out of the blue.
Sacks: Yes, that's how it was with Tony, a patient of mine. Tony was a busy surgeon who had no particular interest in music and no special talent for music. But then, in fall 1994, he was transformed after he had been struck by lightning and was clinically dead for a brief period of time. He had a cardiac arrest probably for 30 seconds, and his brain didn't get enough oxygen. And, since then, he has been a changed man, in that he now has a passion for music, and he’s discovered a considerable talent for music. He is also, to use his own word, 'obsessed' -- or 'possessed' -- by music. It comes with a certain mystical or religious feeling that it is a gift from heaven.
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SPIEGEL: Do you have a rational explanation for what might have happened to his brain?
Sacks: I'm sure that the lack of oxygen caused some type of reorganization in Tony's brain. Nerve cells were presumably damaged or there was some new growth, so that certain parts of the brain that were previously inactive have become active -- and have become constantly active. He feels he hears piano music all the time, his own compositions. This is not dissimilar to what happens to people with frontotemporal dementia, but in that case there's a very clear mechanism whereby damage in this area removes the inhibition in other areas. With Tony, though, it's not clear.
SPIEGEL: Has Tony been possessed, or has he become a good player?
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| SPIEGEL Interview with Neurologist Oliver Sacks: 'I Think of Us as a Musical Species' - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
also Oliver Sacks on Earworms, Stevie Wonder and the View From Mescaline Mountain
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03-18-2008
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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica | WOW!!!!! 
That was an awesome read M!
Thank you so much for sharing! 
Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul. 
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Quote: Neurobiologists Discover Individuals Who 'Hear' Movement
ScienceDaily (Aug. 7, 2008) — Individuals with synesthesia perceive the world in a different way from the rest of us. Because their senses are cross-activated, some synesthetes perceive numbers or letters as having colors or days of the week as possessing personalities, even as they function normally in the world.
Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have discovered a type of synesthesia in which individuals hear sounds, such as tapping, beeping, or whirring, when they see things move or flash. Surprisingly, the scientists say, auditory synesthesia may not be unusual--and may simply represent an enhanced form of how the brain normally processes visual information.
| Neurobiologists Discover Individuals Who 'Hear' Movement  Image from a short video of moving dots. Some people hear sound when watching the video. (Link to full video at end of story.) (Credit: Image courtesy of California Institute of Technology)
Anyone with any first-hand experience of this phenomenon?
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