<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e4214624-e1a9-4381-9afb-f2d08d1867ba/3833D63C-B753-4CCB-8451-D3C9D5EB4154/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=musicians-brains-keep-time--with-on-2009-03-16" href="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=musicians-brains-keep-time--with-on-2009-03-16" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciam.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=musicians-brains-keep-time--with-on-2009-03-16"><DIV> German scientists <A href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/10/22/abstract">report in <EM>BMC Neuroscience</EM></A> that they measured the brain waves of eight pairs of <A href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=guitar-makers-making-music-greener">guitarists</A> using <A href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=what-are-we-thinking-when">electroencephalography</A> (EEG) while they played a modern jazz piece called "Fusion #1" (by Alexander Buck). The researchers found that the guitarists' brain waves were aligned most during three pivotal times: when they were syncing up with a metronome, when they began playing the piece and at points during the composition that demanded the most synchrony.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=musicians-brains-keep-time--with-on-2009-03-16">synchrony was most prominent in the frontal and central parts of the brain that regulate motor function</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=musicians-brains-keep-time--with-on-2009-03-16">this may be related to <A href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-mirror-neuron-revolut">mirror neurons</A>, the capacity of primates and humans to imagine the action of the other person while performing actions yourself</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=musicians-brains-keep-time--with-on-2009-03-16">inter-brain synchrony may also help explain humans' ability to engage in a host of other activities and behaviors that involve couples or teams, such as <A href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=experts-dance">dancing</A>, boxing, <A href="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=tennis-refs-are-people-too-visual-i-2008-10-27">tennis</A> and mother–child bonding</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3833D63C-B753-4CCB-8451-D3C9D5EB4154/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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