Music and the Mind 

while doing research on the topic 'Music & the human Brain' , i'm very thankful for lectures and discussions like this .... So, ..thank you so much for this ..

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts...

Processing deficit fundamentally: is the "sound of the vowels" (a,e,i,o,u) to their frequencies. Vowels connect the consonants to form words. Words make up sentences. Sentences make up paragraphs (passages). Point: This is what connects language with music. All the best,

I'm watching this video for Music 3 too! Prof. Dessen makes appreciation to music much more enlightening and exciting. Sweetness gracious, music and brain are connected together! Awesome!

Dr. Patel is a pioneer in this field of study... if you were counting nervous ticks in order to diagnose him, you may have OCD your own self, not to mention that you missed an amazing lecture. Good job.

A lively and insightful discussion of one of most interesting topics in brain science and music

That was fabulous and fascinating! I couldn't stop watching! Let's all run out and volunteer for brain studies! He also has a really good public speaking voice, which helped me focus on learning from the presentation instead of focusing on his words.

The video Parrots of Telegraph Hill shows that observations need to be made and shared - I remember reading an article about birds never being known to use salt licks only to notice a few days later sparrows coming to the salt crystals left by a leaky water softener. So much in this world still remains unobserved,unremarked or unrecorded.

@ArthlecMann - You are absolutely right. Of course people who don't agree with just won't get it. But after teaching a good number of children and seeing various genre's effects on the brain....I have found that a lot of the kids who are more centered on hearing harmonic notes and diatonic function of music (I.E. Jazz, Classical) usually are able to pick up other languages other than their first language. I've also learned those who listened to instrumental music have better attention spans etc

I found this an interesting lecture. I have a seizure disorder due to a head injury and I have found it has made no difference to my ability to enjoy all types of music ( from classical to jazz) nor my ability to sing on key.....

I really like Professor Dessen! He is soo inspiring and easy to listen to - He makes 8 am class even better! I appreciate how he wants to motivate us to enjoy music more. I wish I had taken this class sooner! Zot zot zot :P

Music engages many brain functions, complex and has grammar an excellent learning venue for learning to read, write and spell. We use Sing, Spell, Read & Write a wonderful program to use in the classroom! Great video, Wonderful Presentation!

I get chills from music with lyrics too, especially by Jon Lucien and Shirley Horn

I love your lectures, Dr. Patel.

My father used to sing in a choir but he isn't keen on playing instruments although he learned a few tunes on an accordion. My father used to call us (me & my siblings) "tone deaf" (his definition) because we can't sing. I play keyboard and violin with a community band. I'm more keen on instruments than singing. I know Japanese especially love Karaoke. They invented it and seems to get people together (people of all ages participate).

Fascinating lecture. There is still a lot of research to be done. However, one thing has become clear, the definition of 'bliss.' If eating, reproduction, and music all trigger your endorphins, then Chocolate, Sex, and Rock n' Roll really are the perfection combination for ultimate pleasure!

you are 100% correct though the mystery of music will never be able to be solved by anyone however they try like the endless numerals of pi..

i think whether there are lyrics or not make a big impact on how the brain responds to it

Question: that parrot which was dancing... would it dance just hearing the music and not "seeing" the other person also musing.... For eg. if you just play the music using a speaker phone will it start dancing?

I love this information, thank you for sharing

The experiment of spotting the difference would probably give similar result if pictures of something unexpected like "a lady taking zebra home from the bakery store" or a chain of nice pictures and then an ugly face. It only proves that our pattern recognition system is sensitive to errors in it's own expectations and probably it works on all senses. Another example of this experience but this time involving more touch, balance and movement is the chill we get when we expect one more step and there's none. More intense probably, unless you're an audiophile. The whole of our brain processes the whole of our experience. Maybe lack of activity is also a kind of a signal in consciousness and empirical experience. In this lecture I like some introduced concept.

I love the sound of that parrot! :) Sweet!

@kratanuva725 Any practicing musician plays an instrument that has the capacity to do so will correct away from any fixed temperament. All temperaments are theoretical devices which for any musicians except keyboard music are simply starting points. They are attempts to fix what for anything but keyboards cannot be fixed. Pythagorean may have been the dominant THEORETICAL system, but that doesn't mean it was used in actual practice, when keyboards became dominant it was soon discarded.

In fact, Dr. Patel has done a scientific study with Snowball. I heard Dr. Patel speak today. Snowball responded to different tempos. Apparently Snowball is the first recorded case!

I really like the information in this video.... Would it be acceptable if I were to use most of this video in a website I'm hoping to be making soon?

The questions he describes at the beginning are starting to be answered at 18:00

Brilliant lecture. Thank you very very much for sharing! ♫ ♥ Ashwin Acharya

Music to heal the mind, body and soul. I like it :)

Thinking - Many more results are promising. Music does help! Thanks for the posting. #ThinkTherapy

Being tone deaf (unable to sing) very much describe members of my family but several play music instruments and rather well by ear... Does parrot move to a beat? Back in high school did experiments with newly hatched chickens imprinting them to walk following us and then the hamsters running through a maze. Does animals do something as "learned" behavior or "innate" by following a set of rules?

I think it's subconscious. When everything else goes dark, the video seems bigger. I have to ask, where'd you get george?

My teacher @ uci is making me watch this video for homework. AWESOME

What's the point of the lightbulb in the top? I've never seen it before.

Do you analyse all the food on your plate instead of eating it.?

I wish someone would have asked a question regarding perfect pitch. I've been trying to gain that ability for the longest.

The speaker conflates rhythm and meter, a common mistake among non-musicians. Simply put , meter has to do with the organization of time into regular units (beats). Rhythm is the grouping of durational values, sometimes consistent and sometimes vastly different, in time.

i dont understand why he said infants are not sensitive to music?Or did I hear it wrong 14: 35

No way dude! They used to sell that film on the street when I lived in North Beach!

Great lecture.

He doesn't talk about off-key notes that work well in transitioning key changes, or notes from other keys that sound good (this happens in Blues a lot) so long as you don't hold or pause on it.

@KingOfTheCretins Hey what have you got against violinists?

But such an influentially beneficial phenomena is pertinent only to the spontaneous musical outburst itself. Not to the unique & uncommonly tasteful selection of the horal appointment for its production

@DarkwingScooter Source? It was used in the middle ages, quite possibly alongside super-pythagorean tunings. (See 17-tone Puzzle and the Neo-medieval Key That Unlocks It by George Secor)

@summercures2 Actually you can develop it. I now out of thin air can sing notes as if they were colors pretty close, after years of not having PP.

If you are going to explain, explain to everyone as you said not everyone is a musician. So a meter would be a 4/4 and a rhytm would be a cha cha cha or a bossa.

@sinusuhas he said infants aren't sensitive to muscal grammar. like chord progressions and melodies...

A friend of mine also smacked on his head when skateboarding and since then he can hardly smell or taste anything anymore.

well, he's figured out the percentage of times he gets is right, and for how many seconds, on average. i think they're still in the process of figuring out the statistics of how significant that is and stuff (but i could be outdated)

Around 31:20 he says that no other species entrains its motion to music, but I've seen birds (attempt to) do that on RU-vid.

THIS IS SO INTERESTING. I hope I get accepted to UCLA so I can study this more in depth.

@tawinteamo when music is referenced its the non-lyrical instrumental like Mozart but even music like lil wayne can and probably does have an impact other than mindlessness

Snowball the dancing bird. But I guess he already knows about Snowball and has used him in experiments. What ever happened to Snowball? I can't find anything up to date about him. Is he dead? I read they live about twenty years, and he would be about twenty.

why does this guy have a mic on his tie and a mic on the podium

Wait until you get to college, you just might have to watch it just like I do!

"When we crank up the stereos, we don't hear rats dancing in the attic, at least not in my house. Maybe in a Disney film..."

@kratanuva725 If you want a source, play an instrument that can correct away from a fixed temperament.

wtf man i thought the video time limit was 10 min

who are you talking to?

09:16 my brain snapped and i can only think of Boobie King from this point on

His hair looks like a hat xD I mistook it for a hat during the first 10 minutes.

thanks!

The bird singing was cute.

anyone else catch that at 9:17 ?

I think that's different. They are trained to do that, and have no such natural inclination, at least not to my knowledge.

Music 3, right? Haha. I'm watching it for homework too.

it's the guy from Yesterday

Smile life is good.

I don't understand why they feel that they have to make such a complicated matter out of this subject. Its actually not something that requires academia to dedicate a great deal of attention & extensive, detailed research with vast amounts of applied mental exertions, intensely focused upon the inquiry being made with a stringently disciplined execution of the scientific method. The question of "music & the mind" is actually a quite simple formula.

Why do all theorists always go on about Pythagorean tuning in Western classical music. Pythagorean tuning was NEVER practically employed as a tuning system even in ancient Greece. The Pythagorean tuning system was and is only a device to study ratios in number as they reflected in physical reality. It irritates me immensely because this seemingly simple assumption leads to a lot of crazy ideas, like that the fourth is not found in the harmonic series.

Why on every comment section there is someone talking about Jesust Chris.WTF he has to do with toppics like this.How about you have to be schizophrenic to talk like that...

@Chuichupachichi bravo my firend! haha

music doesnt need the framework of "science" ..

*clicks mouth*

The clicks didn't worry me. His exaggerated tonal cadence, much as some adults use when talking to small children and poor teachers when talking to stupid pupils, came across as patronizing.

When it comes to modern music.. people that listen to progressive rock and jazz are more intellectual than to listeners of other modern music forms.

i like how he dressed alla Mr.Bean :P

Unfortunately Aniruddh is not as perfectly formed as our suicidal friend or his/her 27 fans.

hi laura I LOVE U

I mean 9:16

only those with the ears to hear

I would love to have listened to this but the lip smacking made by that guy just drove me fucking crazy, I had to stop after 9 minutes!

yeah that annoyed me too!

Synthesizer Patel

OMG stop clicking your mouth every 5 seconds! I can't pay attention to the topic when the speaker can hardly talk!

ru a good kisser? 1 hold ur breath 2 go on to 3 other videos 3 add this comment but still holding you r breath 4 did you make it if you did then ur a good kisser

I wish I was a Booby king

@adraim69 Thanks

love music but snooze for a lecture that could have been presented in 5 minutes

I don't think it ruined his lecture, but my god I agree it was annoying.

Wow ! Relax with the poor guy dry mouth ! it's not THAT disturbing... cool of dudes :)

heeeey whales sing also not just birds

hahaha, that's probably true.

9:18

no he's not

longest inrto

This puts me I sleep.

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