Links & Books

Links

Delosis—Musical Listening Test
www.delosis.com/listening/home.html
You might claim to be tone deaf, but here's a chance to tell for certain. Take these music perception tests, developed by Isabelle Peretz of the University of Montreal, and learn if you have amusia.

Derek Paravicini
www.sonustech.com/paravicini
Find more information about Derek Paravicini, the blind piano prodigy featured in "Musical Minds."

Drum Echoes, Inc.
drumechoes.org
Learn about the organization started by Matt Giordano, whose drumming helps him control his Tourette's syndrome.

Beth Abraham Institute for Music and Neurologic Function
www.bethabe.org/MUSIC_INSTITUTE55.html
The Institute for Music and Neurologic Function provides clinical music therapy, used in treating conditions like stroke, dementia, and Parkinson's. See more about the Institute at its official website.

The Program for Imaging and Cognitive Sciences at Columbia University Medical Center
fmri.org
Learn about Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at this website from the Columbia University Medical Center.

Seed Magazine's Workbench: Oliver Sacks
http://seedmagazine.com/interactive/workbench/oliver_sacks/
In this clever interactive, have a peek at Oliver Sacks's desk and see what he's working on now, whose photos he has push-pinned to his bulletin board, and more.

Big Think—Oliver Sacks
bigthink.com/oliversacks
Hear more from Oliver Sacks at his website on Big Think.

Books

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks. Vintage, 2007.

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin. Plume/Penguin, 2007.

How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker. W. W. Norton & Co., 2009.

Articles

"Music as Medicine for the Brain"
by Matthew Shulman. US News and World Report, July 17, 2008.
health.usnews.com/articles/health/brain-and-behavior/2008/07/17/music-as-medicine-for-the-brain.html

"Baby Got Beat: Music May Be Inborn"
by Brandon Keim. Wired, January 26, 2009.
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/babybeats/

"Musicians' Brains Keep Time—With One Another"
by Jordan Lite. Scientific American: 60-Second Science, March 16, 2009.
www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=musicians-brains-keep-time--with-on-2009-03-16

"Music of the Hemispheres"
by Clive Thompson. The New York Times, December 31, 2006.
www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/arts/music/31thom.html

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