Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, September 19, 2013 Ani Patel (Tufts University) discusses the neuroscience of music, and its overlap with language processing networks.  He describes his OPERA  hypothesis, that describes some of the conditions for plasticity in the brain in response to musical training. Duration: 36 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Bharath Chandrasekaran (Asst Prof, UT Austin) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) acknowledgment: JM Tepper for original music