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[PsychToday] Hearing Music in Baltimore

April 29, 2015
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The response of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was more than just a “feel good” nicety. Here’s why…Read more.

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[PsychToday] 51 Ways to a Greater Musical You

December 21, 2014
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We may not be past the major December holidays, yet, but the new year will be here in a flash. And with the new year comes . . . resolutions. Tis (almost) the season for making changes and creating your life how you’d like it to look . . . Read more. Image courtesy of […]

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[PsychToday] Music and the Shopper

December 3, 2014
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It seems like a tradition, now, one that begins slightly before Halloween. I read it in Facebook status updates, hear it from my friends, even catch myself thinking it. “It” is the annual I-can’t-believe-I’m-hearing-Christmas-music-in-the-stores-already complaint that begins right around mid-October and continues through Thanksgiving…Read more (Image courtesy of photostock at FreeDigitalPhotos.net)

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[PsychToday] 10 Eclectic Halloween Songs

October 29, 2014
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The holiday season is about to unofficially commence as millions of children dress up as their favorite princess, super-hero, cartoon character, or animal. Once appropriately attired, they will travel door-to-door—or in my case in urban Miami, store-to-store at the outdoor mall—collecting mouthfuls of candy to stuff into plastic orange pumpkins. Halloween has all the markers […]

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5 Problems Music Can Create

August 15, 2014
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I am a strong believer in the incredible and varied effect music can have on us. I believe in its ability to shape our brains and our selves. It’s for this reason that I started both my children in piano lessons just shy of their fifth birthdays. Music is the vocational passion of my life […]

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[PsychToday] Music, Adaptation, and Evolution

June 14, 2013
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One of the advantages of working on a PhD is that you get to do a lot of reading and re-reading. I find the re-reading more interesting than the initial reading as I read the article or book in a different way, with a different level of depth and understanding. This happened recently when re-reading […]

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[PsychToday] “Thank You Mister Speaker”: On Music and Social Behaviors

May 9, 2013
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Think music doesn’t matter in our lives? You would be hard-pressed to watch this 2 minute clip and not see how music can change the entire mood of a rather serious group of people…Read more

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25 Songs for Your Hot Summer Playlist

July 5, 2012
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Summer hit early and hit hard this year…in the Midwest and elsewhere around the country. In lieu of complaining about the heat, let’s celebrate it! Here are 25 summer songs to add to your playlist this hot, hot summer: Summertime (Gerswhin) Summer, from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Summer of ’69 (Bryan Adams) Walking on Sunshine […]

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Should This Be Next on your Summer Reading List?

July 18, 2011
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This morning I’m playing the role of the proud wife. My husband is now a published author! Okay, so it’s not really a role I’m “playing”–I am genuinely proud of him! Do you know how much work it takes to publish a book? This has been a process 3 years in the making and it’s […]

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