Mindplays of a Ragtime Pianist: A Journey into Brain Function & the Neuroscience of Music

Presented
by Kerstin Bettermann, Associate Professor of Neurology at Penn State
College of Medicine, and featuring Bob Milne, pianist.
Professional
piano player Bob Milne, father of AU professor Carrie Milne-Zelman, is
an extraordinary musician—despite having never really practiced. Using
his natural ability to hear and play music, he performs multiple complex
rhythms simultaneously while carrying on conversations and lecturing to
his audience on the historical aspects of ragtime music (as you will
experience). How is he able to do this?  Dr. Kerstin Bettermann will
explore this question and address what the neuroscience of music
throughout the last centuries can teach us about how the brain works.