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A little music of the brain
Clinical neurologist and neuroscientist, Paolo Bartolomeo becomes a fascinating storyteller when he addresses current issues on brain function while explaining basic concepts. From the question “What is the brain for?” » For a presentation on brain connectivity, the effects of music, bilingualism, its Latest brain news Ensure that scientific information can be disseminated and communicated.
From the very beginning, The author recalls that this small organ, representing 2% of the human body mass, consumes 20% of the body’s energy, “You struggle to prove theorems or let your mind wander”. Similarly, a look at the history of evolution reveals that “Man’s large brain effectively replaced the thick fur of other mammals”.
Throughout the pages, scholarly and didactic insights abound, such as the example of a tennis player anticipating the path of a ball, which illustrates the demonstration that one of the brain’s main roles is to predict the future. Thanks for this “Predictive Coding”, Details Paolo Bartolomeo, The Making of the Brain “Constantly modeling our external reality and its future evolution”. It counts “Prediction Errors” And “exploits to update its models and develop new, more reliable scenarios”. therefore, “We will act in the world while experiencing it”.
The author is an expert on attention disorders following traumatic brain injury, along with Laurent Cohen and Lionel Nacchen, director of research at Insurm and the Brain Institute. Moreover, an experienced pianist and music lover, he studies the effects of music, this art “different from others”. A fascinating chapter explains the communication that develops between acoustic areas of the temporal lobe and frontal cortex. Incidentally, the researcher chooses to describe the phenomenon of automatic response to music groove, beloved of the Anglo-Saxons. it is “related to the activity of brain circuits important for movement and reward processing” – including the latter ” Nucleus accumbens, involved in drug addiction ».
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