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Category Archive for 'Limbic'

Can’t get this tune out of your head

Posted in Brain, Hearing, Limbic on Nov 10th, 2007

Music and the Brain Here are an amazing number of stories that deal with the notion of music and language. Diana Deutch from UCSD discusses her studies how infants that are raised in different language context will have differing abilities to acquire perfect pitch. She demonstrates that children that have a tonal language (such as [...]

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Basal Instincts

Posted in Behaviour, Brain, Limbic on Oct 30th, 2007

With our final topic of the basal ganglia: those centres that direct repeated and refined motions, this is a relevant story on their role in habit formation. Researchers at MIT found that repeated learned tasks are stored in the basal ganglia. Once the cues that drive the habitual behaviour are removed, test animals would return [...]

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Tryptophan, Typography and Tripping

Posted in Behaviour, Limbic, Perception, Sleep on Oct 28th, 2007

Something to consider over the Harvest Feast Holiday is cuddling up with a good book. A couple suggestions to fuel your mind would be Oliver Sacks’ new book on music-mind connections. The NYTimes wrote a nice review. Another set of essays to prepare you for the third unit of the course are: The Trouble with [...]

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