Listen to Charles Limb's TED talk, posted in December of 2011, on "Building the Musical Muscle." Charles Limb is a doctor and a musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the brain.
He's a hearing specialist and surgeon at Johns Hopkins who performs cochlear implantations on patients who have lost their hearing. And he plays sax, piano and bass.
In search of a better understanding of how the mind perceives complex auditory stimuli such as music, he's been working with Allen Braun to look at the brains of improvising musicians and study what parts of the brain are involved in the kind of deep creativity that happens when a musician is really in the groove.
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