This is your brain on NUTCRACKER

A tribute to BALLET THEATRE COMPANY ( http://www.dancebtc.org/ ) on the eve of the 10th annual NUTCRACKER (Dec. 15-18). (Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker performed by Dupage Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Schubert conducting (licensed for sharing under the Creative Commons).) Brain courtesy of NITRC: 1000 Functional Connectomes database ( http://www.nitrc.org/projects/fcon_1000/ ), a rest-state subject from the Beijing Zang dataset, preprocessed with SPM8 and the ICA toolbox ( http://mialab.mrn.org/software/ ). Colored blobs represent metabolic activity in brain regions; the background gray images are for reference. The activity in various regions controls the loudness of the Nutcracker tracks.... Does the brain sound this way? No, although to certain directors, dancers, production folks, volunteers and parents, it feels like it does!

(Animation by Dan Lloyd, Trinity College, Connecticut (dan.lloyd (at) trincoll.edu))

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• Nutcracker
• ballet
• brain
• fMRI
• neuroscience
• music
• animation
• classical music
• The Nutcracker
• cognitive
• Mind
• Tchaikovsky
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky