https://youtu.be/hho4mjIwkKU
- Oliver Sacks on Music and Mind Important stuff starts at about 13 minutes and
- Parkinson’s and music at about 16 minutes
- Stuttering
- Alzheimer’s – Musical memory is tenacious
- Autistic children
- Person with encephalitis forgot everything All musical memories intact Could conduct symphony
- Hallucinations of music
- Feel like there is a device in their head
- Intracranial “juke box”
- 75% are deaf
- sensory deprivation eg alone in a boat and bored
- results in musical hallucinations
- Amusia
- Unable to understand and perceive music
- perception of speech and everything else is normal
- right frontal white matter component is abnormal
- Unable to understand and perceive music
- Deafness and music
- Losing hearing in one ear
- results in a less perfect appreciation of music
- but over time plasticity enables return of appreciation
- Losing hearing in one ear
- Williams Syndrome
- precocious musically
- social “cocktail” personality
- parietal and occipital lobes small
- spatial sense and vision
- temporal
- speech and music are normal or supernormal
- hyper-musical species
- Gloria Lenoff
- can sing nearly 2,500 songs in more than 25 languages
- I Remember it Well (You Tube)
- Hava Nagila Accordion
- can sing nearly 2,500 songs in more than 25 languages
- Gloria Lenoff
- Musical Savants
- Autism
- prodigious musical pitch
- Autism
- Blindness and Musicality
- Brain denied one aspect can develop other aspects
- Blind Piano Tuners
- Synesthesia
- See colors
- Smell smells
- Previously not Musical and Become Musical
- Tony Cicoria
- orthopedic surgeon
- struck by lightening
- I was dead
- and I saw myself dead
- beautiful experience
- but recovered from CPR
- and pain suddenly came to him
- recovered
- lingering memory problems
- over 2-3 days
- insatiable desire to listen to music
- without previous interest
- then had unusual desire to play music
- taught himself
- inspirations deep inside him
- started to hear music in his head
- endless music in his head
- waking him in the night
- morning day night
- “possessed” by “music from heaven”
- solitary pursuit
- became very spiritual
- could see auras around people
- orthopedic surgeon
- Frontal and Temporal Lobe degeneration
- Fronto- temporal lobar degeneration
- sometimes develop musicality
- lose powers of abstraction and language
- Fronto- temporal lobar degeneration
- Tony Cicoria
- Franco Magnagni
- Never had thought of being an artist until 31
- developed a high fever
- ? seizures
- nightly vivid dreams of Pontito
- his hometown village
- consumed to paint
- taught himself to paint
- Never had thought of being an artist until 31
- Temporal lobe Seizures
- Onset of musical hallucinations
- Develop spiritual and mystical feelings
- “Selema”
- Strange feeling
- sense she was on a beach
- accompanied by sour taste
- grand mal seizure
- temporal lobe tumor
- low malignancies
- surgery
- Transformed into a new person
- reborn
- returned to work as a research
- became unperturbed about silly things
- happy as a lark
- new cheerfulness
- new social skills
- music became a great part in her life
- moved to tears
- addicted to listening to music
- ? release of dormant social skills after removal of part of the temporal lobe
- reborn
- Strange feeling
- Musical Susceptibility among human beings is universal
- central to all cultures
- Many centers in the brain
- that is why it is so robust
- motor responses to music is natural to human beings
- ie dancing as well
- neuroscience of music
- Singing by Speechless Children 1871
- Music
- right hemisphere
- Language
- left hemisphere
- Melodic Learning
- Mozart and Beethoven
- great musicians
- poor mathematicians
- Dyslexia
- Chuck Close Artist
- Music and Chills – Frisson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxVD9kQdgo
- Acting and Handicapped Children
- Sesame Street
- Ameera represents the joyful lives of children with disabilities
- has a spinal cord injury and uses a wheel chair and crutches
- Julia is a fictional character
- autism
- Abby Cadabby
- ADHD
- Jason Kingsley an actor on Sesame street with Downs
- Ameera represents the joyful lives of children with disabilities
- Sesame Street
- Poetry
- Cædmon
- shepherd – illiterate inspired by the heavens to write poetry
- Cædmon
- Savants
- Alonso Clemens sculptor
- Jason Padgett Painting
- Jim Carollo math genius after an accident
- Orland Sorrell hit in the head with a baseball calendar calculation
- Autism and Musoc
- Rex Lewis Clark
- Blind and Brain Impaired
- Musical Savant
- Rex Lewis Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZefk4gzQt4
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