[bioundgrd] Fwd: Invitation to an Interdisciplinary/Multimedia Lecture with Charles Limb: "The Neuroscience of Musical Improvisation"

[Janice Chang]

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> From: Carrie Cai <carriecai08 at gmail.com>
> Date: April 3, 2013 12:00:32 PM EDT
> Subject: Invitation to an Interdisciplinary/Multimedia Lecture with Charles Limb: "The Neuroscience of Musical Improvisation"
> The MIT Presidential Lecture Series is hosting an exciting, interdisciplinary talk next Wednesday 4/10 at Sidney Pacific residence with a well-known TEDx speaker from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Peabody School of Music.
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> We would be very grateful if you could forward the announcement below to your respective departments.
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> Thank you!
> 
> Carrie Cai
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> The MIT Presidential Fellows / Sidney Pacific lecture series proudly presents: 
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> The Neuroscience of Musical Improvisation
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> Join us for a multisensory, multimedia, music-meets-neuroscience experience with TEDx speaker:
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> Professor Charles Limb
> Associate Professor, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
> Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of Music
> Johns Hopkins University / School of Medicine
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> RSVP:
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fnntfWSSNOsHS6zEN3isGEVrzxT9EytbXwnsADtudDE/viewform?pli=1
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> Wednesday, April 10, 2013
> 6 PM (refreshments), 6:30 PM (lecture)
> MIT Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence (map:http://goo.gl/gZUmY)
> Multipurpose Room (ground floor)
> ...Also featuring a live jazz combo!
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> How do freestyle rappers create lyrics off the cuff?  
> How are musicians able to improvise on the spot?
> What makes their brains tick?  
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> Professor Charles Limb (MD) is a hearing specialist, surgeon, and lifelong musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the brain. Dr. Limb has spent more than a decade studying the brain activity of musicians as they improvise.  Known for his brain-imaging studies of jazz musicians, he has expanded his research into another musical genre that emphasizes rhythm and improv: hip hop.  He and his team at Johns Hopkins have put freestyle rappers into functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machines to see what happens in their brains when they rhyme off the tops of their heads.  
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> His TEDx talk has been viewed more than 750,000 times online: http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv.html
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> The MIT Presidential Fellows/Sidney Pacific Distinguished Lecture Series hosts leading thinkers at Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence, MIT's largest graduate community. Lectures are open to the public and followed by lottery-based dinner for up to 40 lecture attendees and the speaker in the Housemaster's Residence.
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> Carrie Cai and David Rosen
> Co-Chairs, Committee on Scholarly Interactions (CoSI)
> Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence
> sp-cosi-chair at mit.edu
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