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this is your brain on jazz

by Mary Ann de Stefano on March 3, 2008

Here’s a study of jazz musicians that tells us during improvisation their “brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression flow” so that creating is about “shutting down impulses that might impede the flow of novel ideas.”

Go medial prefrontal cortex!

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