/newsroom/taxonomy/term/6832/all en /newsroom/robert-zatorre Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:55:19 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288316 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/playbill-does-music-make-you-smarter-285100 <p>At Montreal’s �㽶��Ƶ, neuropsychologist <strong>Robert Zatorre</strong> has a test that suggests a noticeable difference in musical cognition between musicians and non-musicians. “We play a tune in one key,” he explains, “and then repeat it at a different key, and ask if it’s the same or if a note has been changed. What we find is that people with musical training are inclined to do better. If you study people who don’t have training, you’ll find some people who are just as good as the musicians, but others who are just awful at it.”<br /></p> Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:09:18 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32956 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/lack-joy-music-linked-brain-disconnection-264912 <div>Have you ever met someone who just wasn’t into music? They may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five per cent of the population.</div> <div> </div> <div>Researchers at the University of Barcelona and the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of �㽶��Ƶ have discovered that people with this condition showed reduced functional connectivity between cortical regions responsible for processing sound and subcortical regions related to reward.</div> <div> </div> Wed, 04 Jan 2017 15:38:40 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26524 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-discovery-human-auditory-system-260169 <p><strong><em>By Shawn Hayward, <a href="/neuro/">Montreal Neurological Institute</a></em></strong></p> <p><em>Discovery will inform further research into hearing disorders and brain training</em></p> <p>Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at �㽶��Ƶ have made an important discovery about the human auditory system and how to study it, findings that could lead to better testing and diagnosis of hearing-related disorders.</p> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:14:13 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25663 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/practice-doesnt-always-make-perfect-254263 <p>How do you get to Carnegie Hall? New research on the brain’s capacity to learn suggests there’s more to it than the adage that “practise makes perfect.” A music-training study by scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at �㽶��Ƶ and colleagues in Germany found evidence to distinguish the parts of the brain that account for individual talent from the parts that are activated through training. Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:23:30 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 24363 at /newsroom