Biology

A composite image shows a sonogram of a Pink Floyd song next to a sonogram of the song after it has been reconstructed from neural recordings.

Biology

Brain recordings capture musicality of speech — with help from Pink Floyd

As the chords of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1,” filled the hospital suite, neuroscientists at Albany Medical Center diligently recorded the activity of electrodes placed on the brains of patients being prepared for epilepsy surgery. The goal? To capture the electrical activity of brain regions tuned to attributes of the music […]