20/08/2008
Recommended listening this week comes in the form of the Guardian's Science Podcast, with a special programme on music and the brain.
Eminent scientists and musicians tackle issues such as music's evolutionary roots, and the function of music in Western and non-Western cultures.
They ask what makes one sound music and another noise, and investigate one of the most slippery questions of all - what does music mean?
Dr Eric Clark from Oxford University uses hardcore ravers to explain how the brain processes musical grammar and the Medici Quartet's Paul Robertson talks about the musical therapies being developed to help Alzheimer's sufferers - it's fascinating stuff.
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