.... "If the brain was so simple that we could understand it, then we would be so simple that we couldn't." -- Emerson M. Pugh

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Sometimes a Bird's Gotta Dance

Many of you have probably viewed one of the several YouTube videos of "Snowball" the Dancing Cockatoo by now. Well, so has a California neuroscientist who has watched the parrot's rhythmic movements and found them worthy of study, as it relates to the neural processing of music. His study/conclusions here:

http://tinyurl.com/8jr334

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