Graham English

The brain sounds kinda nice.

Watch on YouTube: brainmusic: fmri into musical sound

Hear what the brain scanner sees. Data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are converted to musical sound. (This is the short version; See the 6-part “Music of the Hemispheres” for more.) Data are preprocessed into “independent components,” regions of the brain which activate or deactivate in unison. Each component is assigned a tone, and the tone gets louder or softer in proportion to the degree of activity in the corresponding brain region. So, a melody is the moving center of metabolic energy, dancing all over the brain.

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Tags: brain, Dan Lloyd, fMRI, mind, MRI, neuroscience, Science

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