Music In The Brain: How learning to play can change our brains – 2
Venue: Nortvegia
The Danish National Research Foundation’s Center for Music in the Brain (MIB) is an interdisciplinary research center at Aarhus University and the Royal Academy of Music, aiming to address the dual questions of how music is processed in the brain. In four brief talks the symposium provides an insight into some of the aspects of the MIB research.
“How learning to play can change our brains”
In this talk neuroscientist Elvira Brattico will accompany the audience in an exploration of the amazing changes in the brain that occur after learning to play a new instrument or a new song.
Presented by The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg & SPOT+
Elvira Brattico
Elvira Brattico holds a PhD degree in Psychology, and two Masters degrees, in Philosophy and Music. Using an innovative convergence of brain imaging techniques, musicological analysis and biological methods, her research reveals the neural mechanisms responsible of encoding, discriminating, and appreciating musical sounds, and how these mechanisms depend on biological and cultural factors.