On the subject of 'Musicophelia'...

[speber]

...forum member Renee97 has a used copy of Dr. Oliver Sack's book she would like to sell if anyone is interested. Please send her a PM for details. You can find direct links to 'Musicophelia' through my signature line for more details on Oliver Sack's work.

I would have purchased her copy but my father gave me his copy for Christmas! It's interesting stuff.

[Shelley]

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/m...f_musicophilia

Oliver Sacks on Earworms, Stevie Wonder and the View From Mescaline Mountain

[Wired:] Can playing music alter the structure of the brain?

[Sacks:] Very strikingly. In musicians, parts of the corpus callosum — the bridge between the two hemispheres — are enlarged, and there's more gray matter in the cerebellum. While you can't tell by a glance at someone's brain if they're a writer or a mathematician, you can tell if they're a musician.

[speber]

Wow. That's a confident statement in the scientific arena there! Sounds good though.

[Bernard]

Nice find Shelley!

[Shelley]

Hey, Speber, Maybe that is why you manage to learn at a faster than average rate.

[speber]

[Shelley]

D'oh

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[Shelley]

OK, ok, I like ELP, and King Crimson.