The Contest: The Winning Entries for The Music Instinct Theme
Thanks to everyone who entered! We have selected a winner and posted our top 5 choices here, available for listening or to download.
Thanks to everyone who entered! We have selected a winner and posted our top 5 choices here, available for listening or to download.
During the live broadcast of The Music Instinct, Dr. Daniel Levitin, co-host of The Music Instinct will be taking your questions about the show live via Twitter.
At the World Science Festival this year, musicians and scientists from The Music Instinct appeared on a panel discussing topics related to music and the human experience.
The winners of our first contest for The Music Instinct: Science & Song have been chosen and are listed below along with the mp3s of the winning entries.
Scientist Stephen Mithen offers his theory that, while Neanderthals had no actual language, they communicated through music.
In the first part of this interview with Daniel Levitin, learn about musical memory and the nuerochemicals associated with this form of cognition.
Oliver Sacks discusses how the human brain is wired for language and how this may apply to the human capacity for music.
Brian Greene explains how music can be used to describe String Theory, what some physicists have conjectured may be the answer to finding Einstein's Unified Theory.
Dr. Joanne Loewy demonstrates the use of the Gato box, which can replicate the sound of the mother's heartbeat, for music therapy administered to infants.
At Beth Israel hospital in New York, doctors are experimenting with using the music of the flute to measure the impact of music therapy on patients with chronic lung disease.
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