Nooa Marantz-Pylkkanen is a busy 8-year-old boy who spends his time doing gymnastics, Tae Kwon Do, archery, and soccer, and he loves video games. Unlike most third graders, he also spends time at scientific conferences and attended his first when he was just six months old, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual meeting in San […]
Guest Post by Sadie (Sarah) Witkowski, Northwestern University As one of five children, my mom has plenty of stories about her and her siblings’ misadventures. One of my favorites revolves around my “weird” Uncle Dorsey and his early scientific endeavors. When my mom was about 8 years old, her older brother slipped a tape player under […]
Actions may speak more melodically than sounds. A new study shows that playing a melody on a musical instrument enhances how those melodies are perceived and remembered, above and beyond just listening to them. “We wanted to understand how the auditory system encodes and responds to musical events that the motor system has learned, says […]
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