Study of jazz pianists finds ‘happy’ and ‘sad’ music evoke different neural patterns

Monday, January 4, 2016 - 08:00 in Psychology & Sociology

The workings of neural circuits associated with creativity are significantly altered when artists are actively attempting to express emotions, according to a new brain-scanning study of jazz pianists. Over the past decade, a collection of neuroimaging studies has begun to identify components of a neural circuit that operates across various domains of creativity. But the […]

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