Musicians may be more in touch with human emotions than the average person. Today: a new study that links musical training with heightened emotional sensitivity. Plus: guitarist Sylvain Sylvain talks about the second wind of glam-trash pioneers The New York Dolls.
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Sylvain SylvainNothing More Than Feelings
A musician is more likely to be in touch with human emotions, finds a new study at Northwestern University’s Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory. Neuroscientist Nina Kraus of the university's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory explains how musical training sensitizes people to everything from a baby's cry to a comedian's one-liners. Also joining us ...
Sylvain Sylvain
Few rockers did cross-dressing and hard-living quite like the New York Dolls. But nearly 20 years after the glam-trash pioneers called it quits, the surviving members reunited in 2004 with the help of an unlikely matchmaker: Morrissey. Guitarist Sylvain Mizrahi, better known as Sylvain Sylvain, joins us to talk about ...
Music and emotion
The idea that musicians might be somehow more attuned to the emotions of others really isn't all that surprising. Ever have that feeling where a piece of music strikes you in a way you can't articulate but can certainly feel? So you know that a musician can, at times at least, reach you on an emotional level.
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