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Music and Emotions
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.
Nothing 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 is Dave Soldier, a musician and neuroscientist at Columbia University
Tell us: Are you a musician? Do you work or live with one? Do you think musicians have a heightened sensitivity to emotion?
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 the Dolls' second wind and the new album 'Cause I Sez So.
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