Annals

The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity

Edited by Simone Dalla Bella (University of Finance and Management, Warsaw, Poland), Nina Kraus (Northwestern University, School of Communication, Evanston, Illinois), Katie Overy (University of Edinburgh - Music, Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Christo Pantev (Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, Munster University Hospital, Munster, Germany), Joel S. Snyder (Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada), Mari Tervaniemi (Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland), Barbara Tillmann (Neurosciences et Systèmes Sensoriels CNRS - Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France), and Gottfried Schlaug (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA)

Manuscripts in this Annals volume address how the tools of cognitive neuroscience have provided new insights into music and the brain.

eBriefing

Biology and Art: Two Worlds or One?

Keynote Speaker: Jens Hauser (curator and author)

When visual modeling becomes an essential tool for scientific discovery or when artists borrow scientific technologies and images, the line separating biology and art can become very blurry.

eBriefing

Exploring the Dream Factory : Hollywood and American Anthropology at Midcentury

Speakers: Sydel Silverman (City University of New York and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research), Faye Ginsburg (New York University)

Hortense Powdermaker's landmark 1951 study of the film industry is a lesson in how historical context and theoretical approaches can affect what an anthropologist finds.