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Who gets musical chills and why?
Paper: Nusbaum, E.C. & Silva, P.J. (2010). Shivers and Timbres: Personality and the Experience of Chills from Music. Social Psychology and Personality Science. The online version of this article is available here. Yesterday I was listening to a youtube version of Pavarotti singing Panis Angelicus with his father, recorded in their family church in Modena in 1978 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4mD_EJttQk) As the pair reach the final high note of the final phrase together, I get a little shiver down my spine: Wonderful. There is something about the song and their performance in particular that is so powerful for me that it sets off a physical reaction. What is that all about? Have you…
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Music Therapy in Fragile X and the Cochrane Reviews
Another blog on some of the talks presented at Mozart and Science III – a conference on Music in Medicine and Therapy this year held in Krems, Austria. Here you can see my previous blog which gives more details about the conference itself and a summary of one of the first keynote speech given by Dr Julian Thayer. There were a multitude of interesting talks at the conference and I could not possible attend them all, so many apologies to anyone not mentioned in my blogs. You can find all details about the speakers here. In this blog I will mention 2 talks; one about Fragile X syndrome and one…
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