When referring to the development of the brain in his "Guitar Zero" book, Gary Marcus states that ...

“Are musicians born or made?” Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist at New York University, poses this question in his book about learni...

Dendritic Spines (Credit: Yi Zuo, University of California, Santa Cruz) We have been told our entire lives that "practice make...

     The ability to listen comes quite naturally for most of the human population, except in cases of hearing impairment.  Listening, for ob...

We often hear of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) associated with returning war veterans and their narrow escapes from death. PTSD ...

Music and Language. Two things that appear seemingly different. Their origins have been a subject of much debate and research. Did music c...

In Gary Marcus’ book “Guitar Zero”, there is significant mention of the quantity of work (namely brute practice) a person must put in in ...