Bibliograph

Musical minds, directed and additional filming by Louise Lockwood ; produced for NOVA by Ryan Murdock ; BBC ; WGBH Educational Foundation

Type

Label

Musical minds, directed and additional filming by Louise Lockwood ; produced for NOVA by Ryan Murdock ; BBC ; WGBH Educational Foundation

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Musical minds

Oclc number

435838416

resource.otherEventInformation

Originally broadcast by BBC1 June 3, 2008 as part of Imagine. Broadcast in the US in 2009 as part of Nova

Responsibility statement

directed and additional filming by Louise Lockwood ; produced for NOVA by Ryan Murdock ; BBC ; WGBH Educational Foundation

Runtime

Summary

Can the power of music make the brain come alive? Dr. Oliver Sacks, author of Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain, is involved with this study as Nova follows four individuals: Matt Giordano (United States), Derek Paravicini (England), Anne Barker (Ireland), and Tony Cicoria (United States) to investigate music's strange, surprising, and still unexplained power over the human mind. While these extraordinary stories offer examples of music's unquestionable power over the mind, scientists have yet to fully understand what happens in the brain as we experience music. In an effort to unravel the mystery, Nova puts Sacks himself into a functional MRI machine for two experiments

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification