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Discover what happens when melody meets the mind in these entrancing lectures on the neuroscience of music.

Syllabus

  • 01: Music: Culture, Biology, or Both?
  • 02: Seeking an Evolutionary Theory of Music
  • 03: Testing Theories of Music’s Origins
  • 04: Music, Language, and Emotional Expression
  • 05: Brain Sources of Music’s Emotional Power
  • 06: Musical Building Blocks: Pitch and Timbre
  • 07: Consonance, Dissonance, and Musical Scales
  • 08: Arousing Expectations: Melody and Harmony
  • 09: The Complexities of Musical Rhythm
  • 10: Perceiving and Moving to a Rhythmic Beat
  • 11: Nature, Nurture, and Musical Brains
  • 12: Cognitive Benefits of Musical Training
  • 13: The Development of Human Music Cognition
  • 14: Disorders of Music Cognition
  • 15: Neurological Effects of Hearing Music
  • 16: Neurological Effects of Making Music
  • 17: Are We the Only Musical Species?
  • 18: Music: A Neuroscientific Perspective
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Aniruddh D. Patel

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