Thursday, September 19, 2013

Ani Patel (Tufts University) discusses the neuroscience of music, and its overlap with language processing networks.  He describes his OPERA  hypothesis, that describes some of the conditions for plasticity in the brain in response to musical training.

Duration: 36 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Bharath Chandrasekaran (Asst Prof, UT Austin)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgment: JM Tepper for original music