# Your brain on improv

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxMidAtlantic
- Speaker: Charles Limb
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain, Music
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Your brain on improv](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv/882c11875332), 17 min (TED's player)