Music and the Brain: Are Humans Wired for Music?
Oliver Sacks discusses how the human brain is wired for language and how this may apply to the human capacity for music.
May 21st, 2009
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Music and the Brain: Parkinsonsism and Music’s Ability to Heal
Oliver Sacks explains his first experience as a physician where he saw music transform Parkinson's patients into state where they could move and converse again.
May 21st, 2009
Music and the Brain: The Importance of Early Musical Training
Oliver Sacks takes a look at how finger movements and Suzuki training can affect the brain, especially at an early age.
May 21st, 2009
Music and the Brain: Scientist Oliver Sacks on Musical Cognition
Oliver Sacks explains the how multiple regions of the brain interact to form the ways that humans interact with and create music.
May 21st, 2009
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The Music Instinct: Science and Song is a co-production of THIRTEEN for WNET.ORG and Mannes Productions Inc., in association with ARTE/France, NDR, Australian Broadcasting Corporation with the participation of YLE. Award-winning filmmaker Elena Mannes is writer, director. Narrator is Audra
MacDonald. Executive Producers are Elena Mannes and Margaret Smilow. Available in HD. Major funding for this program provided by the National Science Foundation, Mary Rodgers Guettel, NAMM FOUNDATION, National Endowment for the Arts, Rita and Fritz Markus, The Vital Projects Fund, the Irving Harris Foundation, Sono and Victor Elmaleh, Thea Petschek Iervolino and public television viewers.