Posts tagged with "Neuroscience"

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Expert Diet Advice

Health is important, and having a good diet is necessary, but with a million “experts” out there, it’s hard to know what to take seriously. This is why to trust scientists like Nicole Avena, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Visiting Professor of Health Psychology and Princeton University. She […]

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Interview with Dr. Kraus

By: Skyler Johnson Learning how to play an instrument can help with the development of the human brain, according to scientist, inventor and Northwestern University professor Dr. Nina Kraus. She outlines this research in her new book, Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful World. I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Kraus about […]

Beethoven’s Effect on Test Results

Students Who Listened to Beethoven During Lecture — and Heard the Same Music in Dreamland — Did Better on Test Next Day But scores on the material nine months later dropped to ‘floor level,’ Baylor University study finds College students who listened to classical music by Beethoven and Chopin during a computer-interactive lecture on microeconomics […]