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Your Brain While Improvising Music, Freestyling Rap

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January 15, 2011
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Is it possible to study creativity scientifically? That's what researcher Charles Lamb wants to know. He has been analyzing how the brain works during musical improvisation. To do so, he has been putting jazz musicians and rappers into fMRI machines and surveying what goes on in their brains when they're improvising. This is a facinating talk. Take a look:

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