Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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It turns out that there are totally normal people who just aren't that into music. A group of reseachers working mostly in Spain, who published their findings in a recent edition of Current Biology, call this condition “musical anheodnia,” a fancy way of saying that someone isn't able to derive pleasure from music.
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Read More »Frederich Nietzche wrote, “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Taylor Swift agrees. “People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has,” she once said. And we're all on board with this—everybody loves music, right? Well, not really. It turns out that there are totally normal people who just aren’t that into music. A group of reseachers working mostly in Spain, who published their findings in a recent edition of Current Biology, call this condition “musical anheodnia,” a fancy way of saying that someone isn’t able to derive pleasure from music. These people aren’t deaf or soulless freaks, either. The press release explains: The results were clear: some otherwise healthy and happy people do not enjoy music and show no autonomic responses to its sound, despite normal musical perception capacities. Those people do respond to monetary rewards, which shows that low sensitivity to music isn't tied to some global abnormality of the reward network. So while some of us find ourselves quietly crying in the middle of a Target when some dumb song comes on, other—also totally normal—people carry on tear free. The paper runs through a few reasons why people might differ in their love for music. Perhaps some people decode the emotions in music differently than others. Perhaps someone’s mood could impact how they perceive music. Or perhaps, as the researchers describe in wonderfully academic terms here, they don’t have great rhythm: A third aspect to bear in mind as a source of individual differences is the strong impact that music has in humans through the capacity to spontaneously and intuitively synchronize our body movements to a rhythm’s beat, using simple movements (e.g. toe tapping or head nodding) or more complex ones such as dancing. You can find out if you’re one of these non-music loving people by taking this quiz from the authors. Then again, you probably already know if you are or not.
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Learn More »Chris Hemsworth is taking a break from acting after discovering his high Alzheimer's risk. Chris Hemsworth has revealed he's taking some time out from acting after he found out he has a concerningly high predisposition to Alzheimer's disease.
Chris Hemsworth has revealed he's taking some time out from acting after he found out he has a concerningly high predisposition to Alzheimer's disease. The actor has recently been filming his new documentary series Limitless, which as the name suggests, involves Hemsworth finding ways to push himself to the physical brink as he explores the various ways to increase longevity. Whilst filming, the Thor actor did several genetic tests and it was thanks to them that he discovered that he carries two copies of a gene which has extremely close associations with dementia, the disease caused by Alzehimers. As revealed by the doctor who performed the genetic tests on Hemsworth, only 3% of the population have this specific double copy of the gene, which increases the risk of the disease by 8-10%. As he explains in Vanity Fair, the discovery has prompted Hemsworth to take some time off. "It really triggered something in me to want to take some time off. And since we finished the show, I've been completing the things I was already contracted to do.Now when I finish this tour this week, I'm going home and I'm going to have a good chunk of time off and just simplify. Be with the kids, be with my wife", he said Hemsworth also revealed that his grandfather is currently suffering from dementia and that the disease is something that has affected his family: "I'm not sure he actually remembers much anymore and he slips in and out of Dutch, which is his original language, so he'll be talking Dutch and English and then a mash-up and then maybe some other new words as well." Hemsworth's new six-part series Limitless is now available to watch on National Geographic.
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