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...t might insect-eating bats possess that most human musicians would envy? Can the sounds of a person's voice rev...ggest that bats may have something that most human musicians envy: perfect pitch, the ability to recognize the pitch of a particular echo tone in isolation rathe...1999 Fall Meeting: Press conferences and special events
...] Musicians and seismologists have much in common: musicians create waves to make beautiful music, while seismologists study waves to analyze the Earth. When musicians are also seismologists, they can explain both music and earthquakes in new ways. This is a public le...Fall Meeting: updated press conferences and special events
... Musicians and seismologists have much in common: musicians create waves to make beautiful music, while seismologists study waves to analyze the Earth. When musicians are also seismologists, they can explain both music and earthquakes in new ways. This is a public le...Genes or environment: what shapes the sensory homunculus?
...ifferences in certain auditory brain areas between musicians with perfect pitch and nonmusicians. These differences, the authors write, develop around the 30th week of pregnancy, and might therefore be genetic. The other study showed that string players had a larger cortical representation of the digits on the...Memory for music: Musicians don't have to hear themselves perform after they learn a song
...matching theory would suggest musicians who heard the music during learning would ...n't the case. "We found that musicians remembered music better when they heard it during learning, regardless of wheth...Audience pick: Older violin, sweeter music?
... neighbors made good violins too, but they sold to musicians and were used up," Nagyvarysaid. "But everyone in Cremona made good violins because they used the same process ofsmoking or boiling the wood to kill wood worm. "The violin trade doesn't like a scientist figuring out something simple like that," ...Hand-to-ear link in brain established after minutes of piano learning
...nce. Recent brain imaging studies of professional musicians have demonstrated that silent tapping of musical phrases can stimulate auditory areas of the cortex and hearing music can stimulate areas of the motor cortex. Moreover, according to anecdotal evidence, hearing music can cause pianists to move their f......d to a wide range of skilled performers athletes, musicians and workers at risk of developing repetitive stress injuries to improve performances without overloading the musculoskeletal system. Musculoskeletal dynamics "Integrating experimental and modeling approaches of studying human movement allows us ...