Category: Pop Music
Interesting patterns of brain activity emerge during musical analysis exercises
What better way to start this new year – Happy New Year, btw – than with music? Or better: research about music! Researchers found that students trained to play music from a young age exhibited certain kinds of brain activity more strongly than other students. This is not unreasonable to expect, as well, they use… Read More Interesting patterns of brain activity emerge during musical analysis exercises
Funny on Sunday: my biggest nightmare for halloween
How our brain predicts the future while listening to music
This study on our brain’s ‘prediction machine’ capabilities is both fascinating and fun. Ok, maybe I’m biased because it is about music. But bear with me as to whether listening to a concerto by Bach or the latest pop tunes on Spotify, the human brain does not wait passively for the song to unfold. Instead,… Read More How our brain predicts the future while listening to music
Funny on Sunday: NY, London, Paris, Munich…
One of education’s fascinating dirty little secrets
It must have been 2012 when I first read Rousseau en ik (Rousseau and me) by Dutch philosopher Maarten Doorman. While it’s impossible to underestimate Jean Jacques Rousseau’s influence on our thinking about education and raising our children, I discovered that he was instead a jack of all trades but master of none. And then… Read More One of education’s fascinating dirty little secrets
Funny on Sunday: Death Metal Triangle Player
Funny on Sunday: Mozart as a Child and as a Danish composer…
Two for the price of one… Earlier this week I found this cartoon: And yesterday I showed one of our sons the great Victor Borge also about Mozart:
Funny on Sunday: when you just want to play guitar, but…
H/T Jurgen Surinx
Dave Grohl: In Defense of Our Teachers
To good not to share even while taking a break!
From experience to meaning... 