Dana is a flautist and a Neuroscience PhD student at Harvard University, in her fourth year. She plays in the tradition of Western Classical music. She joins us to discuss her thoughts on cognition, music, and her research.

From the Episode

Cocktail Party Effect - Read more about it here.
Melodic Intonation Therapy - Read more about it here.
Steven Pinker's Auditory Cheesecake Analogy - Read more about it here.
Synesthesia - Read more about it here.
Aphasia - Read more about it here.
Amusia - Read more about it here.
Tsimane Tribe - Read more about it here.
Perception Narrowing - Read more about it here.

1. Speech and music perception pathways are separate.
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23019005/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26687225/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21389239/
2. There is a region of the brain that's dedicated to music perception. 
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23019005/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26687225/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20519535/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21389239/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26321976/
3. There is difference in the way musicians and non-musicians perceive music.
4. Musicians have better frequency discrimination (Spiegel and Watson, 1984; Kishon-Rabin et al., 2001; Micheyl et al., 2006)
• Musicians are better able to synchronize with a beat (Repp, 2005, 2010; Bailey and Penhune, 2010)
• Musicians are better at melodic and interval discrimination (Fujioka et al., 2004; McDermott et al., 2010; McPherson and McDermott, 2018)
5. Relation between speaking a tonal language and there being a better probability for having absolute pitch.
6. The study which submitted culturally diverse music to babies, in particular diverse rhythm patterns to conclude that infants are fluent in the music of multiple cultures.
• www.scitation.org
• onlinrary.wiley.com
• www.nature.com
• https://www.pnas.org/content/102/35/12639.long
7. Dana's work on the Cocktail Party Problem