Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
... -- "but don't look for them right away in hip-hop music videos," he says. Dagmar Sternad of the Penn State department of Kinesiology and Rieko Osu and Mitsuo Kawato of ATR-Kyoto were co-authors of the study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, Japanese Science and Technology Agency, and A...Joslin Diabetes Center releases new low impact exercise video
... Each workout segment is set to music and led by Joslin Clinical Exercise Physiologist Catherine Jarema, M.S., R.C.E.P., C.D.E. Richard A. Jackson, M.D., a senior physician at Joslin Diabetes Center and head of its federally funded "On the Road" program, also provides useful information ...U of T study finds music teachers at risk of hearing loss
A study by researchers at U of T suggests that music teachers are routinely exposed to noise levels that could result in hearing loss. Led by research associate Alberto Behar and electrical and computer engineering professors Hans Kunov and Willy Wong, the team found that while general noise exposure o...BioCDS could hit No. 1 on doctors' charts
...ore digital information - such as computer data or music - as billions of tiny "pits" in their surface. These microscopic pits, which represent binary ones or zeroes depending on their size, are etched in concentric tracks circling the midpoint from the inner to the outer edge of a CD. "It is these pits wh...Researchers string together players in pesticide resistance orchestra
...drigh, associate professor of entomology. "Using a music analogy, metabolic resistance may not be a single individual playing a single instrument. It's more likely a symphony with numerous instruments playing a role in producing the music." The ultimate aim of the research is to develop methods to prevent ...Nomadic outposts of transplanted stem cells tracked in Stanford study
... them play musical chairs - we just don't hear the music yet." What surprised the researchers is how much the pattern varied. In many cases one location would initially house a healthy population of glowing stem cells, only to have that population fade over time while daughter cells set up camp at a distan...Hand-to-ear link in brain established after minutes of piano learning
Contrary to what your music teacher told you, it does not take decades of pian...stimulate auditory areas of the cortex and hearing music can stimulate areas of the motor cortex. Moreover, according to anecdotal evidence, hearing music ca...Audience pick: Older violin, sweeter music?
...ition and every note with the scales and ambitious music -- to be balanced, Nagyvary explained. "I'm even attempting to fake the age so that even if the screen were removed, the audiencewould not be able to tell the two violins apart," Nagyvary said. The whole even is a bit of a scientific experimen......Memories of words, sounds of voices or patterns of music are important components of human daily experience and are essential for normal communication, yet "we know little about how such memories are formed in the brain and how they are retrieved," Margoliash said. Bird songs have captured the interest of ...Researchers use lab cultures to create robotic 'semi-living artist'
...led "Fish & Chips." In that project, the team used music to stimulate electrical activity from a few fish neurons cultured on silicon chips, which in turn controlled a robotic arm. "The goals are both to learn more about how brains work and to apply what is learned to designing fundamentally different type...Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting abstract highlights
...ialized for temporal resolution in music, and that music may share functional substrates with language. Our follow-up studies will investigate whether or not this musical processing pattern can change with musical training. Poster #101 Brain function in individuals diagnosed with autism duringdiscriminat...Memory for music: Musicians don't have to hear themselves perform after they learn a song
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Musicians who hear the music they are performing while learning a new piece have a better memory for the music later, a new study suggests. But after they learn a song, actually hearing the...Backstage with a command performer
...act on a living organism. They're interpreting the music as it is played. Allis adds: "It is an exciting field and it is wonderful to see the new laboratories turning to chromatin in their biological systems." Not an Ez mark The notion that a nascent set of biochemical criteria helps us understand health...The frontier of microelectronics: Building nano-machines, part by part
...e day be used as light-guiding components. What do music and nanophotonics have in common? "An organ pipe is a resonator that gives different pure tones, or frequencies. One tone or its harmonics will be emitted. We're doing an analog for that for light, not sound," said Hu. "We make these resonators and t...Imaging study provides new information on how the brain processes sounds of different tones
...ovember 12, 2002) - Bethesda, MD In 1968, country music singer Johnny Cash recorded the fictional lament of a convict in Folsom prison. The lyrics, "I hear the train a comin'; it's rollin' 'round the bend, And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when, " contain an acoustic anomaly, the sound of a...Songbirds use mental pointer when playing tunes
...e bird even keeps its "finger" on its mental sheet music both day and night. In a National Science Foundation (NSF) supported study atLucent Technology's Bell Laboratories, researchers have discovered that signals serving as "mental pointers" are produced in the brains of zebra finches while they sing, a...Fulbright fellow develops environmental biology courses in Zimbabwe
...the inter-city Methodist church, with services and music in the Shona language. The churcha roof with a co... and one partial wall and wooden benchesplayed its music with a drum and three rattles. The choir came in to a traditional Methodist hymn, marching to the c...Untangling the matrix of risk factors for alcoholism
...ble to meld disparate sections in order to produce music rather than cacophonous noise. Thus, without appropriate modulation - which we assume is supplied by serotonin - individuals will overreact to emotional stimuli." Knowing of the strong association between serotonergic dysfunction and behavioral diso...Chemists spin materials to improve magnetic resonance data
.... When a station is far away, music from other stations can drown it out. In the case of atoms and molecules, the radio information that is lost concerns the environment of the atoms. That's because each atom emits radio ...Nature sights and sounds can ease pain of common lung procedure
...ng to Lechtzin, others have studied the effects of music on bronchoscopy experience with mixed results. "We believe we are the first group to study a particular combination of audio and visual distraction using biophilic images," he says. The Hopkins group next plans to test the distractions on bone marrow...