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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons

"But now some scientists are. . .trying to understand and quantify what makes music expressive — what specific aspects make one version of, say, a Beethoven sonata convey more emotion than another."
Posted by John Jaeger at 8:12 PM
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