"Music of the Hemispheres": A presentation by Roger Dumas November 4, 2009

We are all familiar with the stethoscope, the Geiger counter and SONAR. They're some of the tools we use to listen to our bodies and our environment. Just as the acoustic events generated by our hearts can be monitored for specific rhythms, so can the electro-magnetic fluxuations emanating from our brains be heard as musical events. Join researcher Roger Dumas from the Brain Sciences Center in an exploration of "musical sonification," an innovative way to listen to the workings of the human brain.

Roger Dumas is a research fellow at the University of Minnesota Brain Sciences Center. He specializes in the study of music perception using statistical analysis and has published several articles on the ability of the human brain to discern different pitches and to distinguish between overlapping musical sources.

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