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TED-Ed · August 15 · 23 min

Your brain on improv - Charles Limb

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds. (Filmed at TEDxMidAtlantic.) Talk by Charles Limb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds. (Filmed at TEDxMidAtlantic.)

Talk by Charles Limb.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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