June 04, 2008
NeuroPod on music and free will:
I've just noticed that the month slipped past without me realising that the May edition of Nature's NeuroPod show hit the net, covering musical neuroscience, the vagaries of free will and Huntingdon's disease.
One highlight is neuroscientist John Dylan Haynes arguing that free will is dead, and while we're still waiting for the conclusive scientific data, we can probably bank on it being an illusion.
There's also a fascinating piece on the psychology and neuroscience of music and its value as a social force.
As a musical aside, you may be interested to know the the BBC broadcast a documentary last night based on the Oliver Sacks' book Musicophilia. If you live in the UK, you can watch it online via the BBC, although sadly only for the next 6 says.
Link to Nature NeuroPod archive.
Link to BBC documentary on Musicophilia (UK only).
