Music and the Brain
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Discover what happens when melody meets the mind in these entrancing lectures on the neuroscience of music.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Music: Culture, Biology, or Both?
- 02: Seeking an Evolutionary Theory of Music
- 03: Testing Theories of Music’s Origins
- 04: Music, Language, and Emotional Expression
- 05: Brain Sources of Music’s Emotional Power
- 06: Musical Building Blocks: Pitch and Timbre
- 07: Consonance, Dissonance, and Musical Scales
- 08: Arousing Expectations: Melody and Harmony
- 09: The Complexities of Musical Rhythm
- 10: Perceiving and Moving to a Rhythmic Beat
- 11: Nature, Nurture, and Musical Brains
- 12: Cognitive Benefits of Musical Training
- 13: The Development of Human Music Cognition
- 14: Disorders of Music Cognition
- 15: Neurological Effects of Hearing Music
- 16: Neurological Effects of Making Music
- 17: Are We the Only Musical Species?
- 18: Music: A Neuroscientific Perspective
Taught by
Aniruddh D. Patel
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