Musical Expertise
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Does music training change the brain?
Hello Dear Reader Indian Summer has passed here in Luzern. The air is full of autumn chill and the ever early nights are creeping towards freezing. Mind you, it is November! So this turn of events is the expected compared to the balmy weather of recent times. In fact, my local friend Suse tells me that the peaks of 21degrees Celsius that we reached in late October (just shy of 70 degrees Fahrenheit for my US friends) last occurred in the mid-1960s. Lucky me. Today I have been reading a new Frontiers paper on a perennial topic in music psychology – musical training and the brain. When I was studying music…
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Music psychology and technology (and Happy Holidays!)
Dear Reader I would like to wish you all a very Happy Holiday and a prosperous New Year. I will be heading off soon to spend time with my families both in the UK and Spain so this will be my last blog of 2012. Thank you all for your kind comments and for spending time on my blog over the past year. I hope to see you back again in 2013! As part of my last blog it is my pleasure to introduce you to Diana Hereld, a fellow blogger who recently interviewed me for a Hypebot, a music technology industry online magazine. Diana asked some great questions…