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Creativity and the Brain: What We Can Learn From Jazz Musicians

Blog Katrina Schwartz on Mind/Shift

“Listening to jazz musicians improvise, how the piano player’s chords toy with the sax player’s runs and the standup bass player’s beats, it may seem like their music-making process is simply magic. But research of jazz musicians’ brain activity as they improvise is helping shed light on the neuroscience behind creativity, and it turns out creating that magic is not as serendipitous a process as we might think.”

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