Music of the Hemispheres, Part1/6

A lecture on brain scanning and the data analysis that goes with it. (For the quick overview, see the standalone video "Brainmusic: fMRI into musical sound.") Standard approaches to functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) imaging data make assumptions that may obscure much of the brain's activity. Independent component analysis (ICA) is an alternative "data driven" method. But to really capture the many-sided dynamism of the brain, one should convert image to sound, as is explored in this lecture. Changes in experimental tasks are easily heard, as is the difference between the brains of individuals with schizophrenia compared to healthy subjects.
NOTE: Since this video was first posted, the brainmusic project has attracted the interest of the independent documentary film maker Elisa da Prato. To check the status of the feature-length film (and to support the project), see http://musicofthehemispheres.com/
The "mind as music" hypothesis finds empirical support in this open source paper:
http://www.frontiersin.org/theoretical_and_philosophical_psychology/10.3389/f...

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• resonance
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• sonification
• schizophrenia

[Baxxter101]

Thank you for posting these videos! This is an amazing approach to furthering the study and understanding of neuroscience.

Serves as further proof that our brains might be the most complicated biological systems on earth at the moment. It certainly serves to show how incredibly complex human brain activity is, and how difficult the interpretation of its activity will be.... We are a loooong ways away from mind-reading machines.