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Your brain on improv

Charles Limb · TED

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About

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxMidAtlantic
Speaker
Charles Limb
Year
2010
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Psychology and the brain, Music
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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