# Charles Limb: Your brain on improv

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.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2011
- Runtime: 16 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, Music
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/CharlesLimb_2010X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/CharlesLimb_2010X?play=1)