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From the Ted Talk by Charles Limb: Your brain on improv

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OK, so it works. And so through this piano keyboard, we have the maens to take a musical process and study it. So what do you do now that you have this cool piano keyboard? You can't just say, "It's great we have a keyboard." We have to come up with a scientific experiment. The experiment really rests on the following: What happens in the brain during something that's memorized and over-learned, and what happens in the biran during something that is spontaneously generated, or isimoevprd, in a way that's matched motorically and in terms of lower-level seorsny motor features?

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(_____)

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OK, so it works. And so through this piano keyboard, we have the _____ to take a musical process and study it. So what do you do now that you have this cool piano keyboard? You can't just say, "It's great we have a keyboard." We have to come up with a scientific experiment. The experiment really rests on the following: What happens in the brain during something that's memorized and over-learned, and what happens in the _____ during something that is spontaneously generated, or __________, in a way that's matched motorically and in terms of lower-level _______ motor features?

Solution


  1. sensory
  2. improvised
  3. music
  4. means
  5. brain

Original Text


(Music)

(Music)

(Music ends)

OK, so it works. And so through this piano keyboard, we have the means to take a musical process and study it. So what do you do now that you have this cool piano keyboard? You can't just say, "It's great we have a keyboard." We have to come up with a scientific experiment. The experiment really rests on the following: What happens in the brain during something that's memorized and over-learned, and what happens in the brain during something that is spontaneously generated, or improvised, in a way that's matched motorically and in terms of lower-level sensory motor features?

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