Charles Limb: Your brain on improv

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Uploaded by on Jan 5, 2011

http://www.ted.com Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

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  • At 12:33 "Many of my colleagues think I'm crazy" Any new idea is crazy until it works. Then it is genius.

  • Awesome dude TED talking,

    no people will be mocking

    this lyrical flow is shocking

    hahahaa Really interesting though. We need more TED talks like this!

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  • @Bfavrestarr415 AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  • Tupac, Biggie, Charles Limb

  • watch out auto-tune, now we can poke someone's brain in the right spot and get an epic song!

  • I did not enjoy this. I could level many reasonable complaints against it, but I don't wanna. I just didn't feel it was worth my time because I didn't get much out of it.

  • I think freestyling is one of the hardest things to get in the zone with. 90% of hiphop artists cannot freestyle. Most of the fake ones are written verses. I was only able to do it once where I freestyled on point for over 3 minutes. Its like trying to create a new language only using images from your brain. Its like a meditation, because everything around you does not exist...only you.

  • @kuruptid word.

  • "It means that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are not enlightened by fixed teachings but by an intuitive process that is spontaneous and natural."-Buddha

  • Mad scientist? Crazy?

    No he is just ahead of time.

    People thought Wright brothers are wasting their time...

    People thought Mendel and Darwin were crazy...

    People thought cars will never replace horses...

  • @eatingperson did you see the one on having a stroke? it was great.

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