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Music for pain reduction
Hello dear reader. I apologise for my silence over the past couple of weeks. It has been a busy time, what with the end of the exam period and the end of the summer term in the UK. But I have not forgotten about you! I have updated the jobs page and added some videos to the resources page (including a nice summary of music and mood studies from Frank Russo’s lab in Canada). I hope you enjoy. In addition I have just read a really nice study that I thought I would share with you. It appears in PloS ONE so you can all access the paper, which is…
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Segregation and Integration in Music and Language
Good morning, dear reader. A couple of years ago I had the good fortune to work with Sebastian Finkel, a very promising PhD student currently working at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He recently helped to organise a conference at his University called “Segregation and Integration in Music and Language“. And because he is so lovely he agreed to provide a summary of some of the key conference points for you and I. So without further ado, I give you a report on SIMAL2012 by Sebastian Fikel: Music and language share common neural resources; this is sometimes quit obvious, for example: the same muscles (abdominal, intercostal, extrinsic and intrinsic laryngeal…