EEG brain cap detects musical creativity
From: EE Times - October 22, 2003 - page 71
By: R. Colin Johnson
 

Music researchers report making strides toward a modern-day "brain cap" that
can detect and recognize musical ideas in the minds of composers with up to
99 percent accuracy. 

"When the technology is more mature we will test it with musician patients at
the Royal Hospital of Neuro-Disability" in London, Eduardo Reck Miranda, head
of computer music research and leader of the neuroscience-of-music group at
the University of Plymouth, England, said. "The idea is to let these patients
have the opportunity to continue making music, provided that the brain damage
did not impair their musical cognition. It may be that by stimulating the
musical part of the brain that was involved in motor control - in other
words, playing instruments - we can contribute to improving the damaged motor
part of their brain."  

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