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Research a music topic Achievement Standard 91425

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What does Music do to your brain?

Your brain on improvMusician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

Take a look at these TED talks.

They might help you look at music in a different way

Building the musical muscleCharles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack: They don't let you fully experience music yet. (There's a hair-raising example.) At TEDMED, Limb reviews the state of the art and the way forward.

Why We Love Repetition in Music: Explained in a New TED-Ed Animation Our favorite pop songs have a repeating chorus. You can pretty much bank on that. But, as it turns out, repetition isn't just a phenomenon in Western music. You'll find it in many forms of music across the globe. Why is this the case? What makes repetition a fairly universal feature in music?

What making music does to your brainWhat’s it like to have a song inside your head, itching to get out? A neuroscientist and a songwriter compare notes from the frontier of music and science.

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