OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
Music:
If I only had a brain: According to this highly intelligible comment from YouTube this song was featured on Beavis and Butthead - surprise surprise! DaDrizzL31214 (2 weeks ago) On Beavis and Butthead, they were waatching this vid and Beavis started going with the tune for the whole song. He...
Posted on January 25, 2008 4:01 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Why do those holiday tunes get stuck in your head so much?" I was invited to pose this question to Dr. Robert Zatorre, Co-Director of the BRAMS: Brain Music and Sound lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University. Dr. Zatorre is a leading expert in neuroscience research...
Posted on December 24, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Anaesthetist's Hymn
Posted on November 30, 2007 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This Friday is a holiday (in America, at least) and what's better on a holiday than a rerun? Yay for reruns. So, I've written about the Amygdaloids before, but here's an introduction video in case you didn't see it (or want to enjoy it again). Also, this band of rockin'...
Posted on November 23, 2007 10:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I couldn't wait for Multimedia Friday to post this video, it's just too funny. I Am the Very Model of a Psychopharmacologist is set to Gilbert and Sullivan's classic song with animation. Created by Stephen M Stahl, MD, PhD, of the Neurosciences Education Institute, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the...
Posted on November 19, 2007 8:00 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Omni Brain met its fundraising goal of $1000 for music education programs through DonorsChoose. Thank you to everyone who's donated. You rock! Now 30 kids will too. But it'd be okay, you know, permissible (haha) to exceed our goal if you'd still like to help a Lisa Simpson. A...
Posted on October 24, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
You're seeing other ScienceBlogs readers donate, now join the love train*. A rare serious post from Steve explains The Real Mozart Effect and why we should support music education with DonorsChoose. Playing an instrument has cognitive and developmental benefits. That reason formed an episode of The Simpsons, too: Lisa's Sax....
Posted on October 23, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Music education in the United States has typically been one of the first thing to be cut when it comes to balancing the budget. This is a horrible shame since music is one of those things (above any of the other arts) that has a wide ranging effect on peoples...
Posted on October 6, 2007 1:10 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What makes a great film?
Posted on August 20, 2007 8:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
In the September issue of Cognition, Josh McDermott and Marc Hauser report finding that both cotton-top tamarins and common marmosets clearly prefer the lullabies. A follow-up experiment concludes that the monkeys actually prefer silence over Russian and German lullabies, as well as Mozart.
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Posted on August 7, 2007 9:59 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Steve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is a real graduate student at a real school.
