Bibliograph

Musical minds, with Dr. Oliver Sacks, a production of Nova and ; produced by Ryan Murdock and directed by Louise Lockwood

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Label

Musical minds, with Dr. Oliver Sacks, a production of Nova and ; produced by Ryan Murdock and directed by Louise Lockwood

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Not rated

Main title

Musical minds

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

435838416

resource.otherEventInformation

Originally broadcast in 2009 as an episode in the television series Nova

Responsibility statement

a production of Nova and ; produced by Ryan Murdock and directed by Louise Lockwood

Runtime

Sub title

with Dr. Oliver Sacks

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