The interplay of business, art and science
photo credit: Arbron New research shows musical training sharpens the ability to sense emotions. Makes sense to me. Music, especially classical, conveys many subtle emotions. Music and other arts help us develop our sense perceptions. Our perceptions shape our perspective and vice versa. According to Dana L. Strait and a team of researchers at Northwestern University [...]
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This reminds me of the work of Dr. Linda Long, a biochemist and musician, who develops Molecular Music from plant and human protein molecules. She uses the results for therapeutic purposes and to increase understanding of science and the human body. From Utne: Using people’s brain waves as the notes, scientists have created music. The [...]
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A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth. The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory ? the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory [...]
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JANET RAE-DUPREE writes in the New York Times: I’M of two minds. As a matter of fact, so are you. And until recently, corporate America wasn’t doing much to take advantage of one of them. But now that we?re hip-deep in what has been called both the Creative Economy and the Conceptual Age, no one [...]
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Tony Buzan, the UK-based inventor of Mind Maps, says “When you train your memory and train your imagination, there is a remarkable increase in concentration, study skills and creativity, while at the same time raising your IQ.” At the American Creativity Assoc Conference in Singapore, he asked us to write down the nine planets that [...]
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Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork
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