Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Director, music cognition lab, University of Arkansas
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is director of the music cognition lab at the University of Arkansas, a trained concert pianist, and the author of On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (2013).
Written by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
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Music
Music is not for ears
We never just hear music. Our experience of it is saturated in cultural expectations, personal memory and the need to move
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
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Dance and theatre
The music in you
You might not be a virtuoso, but you have remarkable music abilities. You just don’t know about them yet
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
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Cognition and intelligence
One more time
Why do we listen to our favourite music over and over again? Because repeated sounds work magic in our brains
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis