Re: How does rhythmical music (I.e. drumming) beneficially affect learning?

Date: Mon Apr 8 06:50:52 2002
Posted By: Dave Marsen , Grad student, Neurobiology, electrophysiology , University of Amsterdam
Area of science: Neuroscience
ID: 1015349447.Ns

Message:


You could try to go to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

This is the pubmed site, which is a search engine for medical articles. 

I personally can't tell you much about drums and learning, except for the 
fact that drumming can evoke a sort of mantra/trance situation, which is 
calming for the brain. 

try to get these following articles:

Good luck 
Dave 

Drums Keep Pounding a Rhythm in the Brain
Science 2001 Feb 23;291(5508):1506-7   Stryker MP.

Modulation of oscillatory neuronal synchronization by selective visual 
attention
Fries P, Reynolds JH, Rorie AE, Desimone R. Science 2001 Feb 23;291
(5508):1560-3


Nature 1996 Sep 26;383(6598):301, 303
Visual psychophysics: stimulating brain but not mind.
Koch C, Tootell RB.

Attentional resolution and the locus of visual awareness.
Nature 1996 Sep 26;383(6598):334-7  He S, Cavanagh P, Intriligator J.

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