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Alison Abbott
Nature. 416.6876 (Mar. 7, 2002): p12.
Abstract: Music stirs the soul. Mozart’s Requiem has moved listeners for centuries. And today’s masters of popular culture have made a fine art of using music to manipulate our moods: when Oliver Stone picked Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings as the theme for his Vietnam epic Platoon , he knew that its plaintive tones would induce a surge of emotion among movie-goers.
Now, research is revealing the neural interactions that provoke these reactions, showing that our brains have distinct circuits for perceiving, processing and playing music. The neuroscientists behind these studies say that music provides an ideal model for studying how the brain integrates complex perceptual and behavioural tasks. But these researchers are also interested in answering a more fundamental question: what is music for?
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