Charles Limb: Your Brain on Improv

  • Published29 Oct 2014
  • Reviewed29 Oct 2014
  • Author Charles Limb
  • Source TED

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation — so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

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