Rhythm, Music, and the Brain: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications (Studies on New Music Research)

Rhythm, Music, and the Brain: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications (Studies on New Music Research) Review

With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human brain "live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based sensory language quickly became a fascinating topic of study. The question of "how" music moves us, stimulates our thoughts, feelings, and kinesthetic sense, and how it can reach the human experience in profound ways is now measured with the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience. The goal of Rhythm, Music and the Brain is an attempt to bring the knowledge of the arts and the sciences and review our current state of study about the brain and music, specifically rhythm.

The author provides a thorough examination of the current state of research, including the biomedical applications of neurological music therapy in sensorimotor speech and cognitive rehabilitation. This book will be of interest for the lay and professional reader in the sciences and arts as well as the professionals in the fields of neuroscientific research, medicine, and rehabilitation.

The Funkmasters-the Great James Brown Rhythm Sections

The Funkmasters-the Great James Brown Rhythm Sections Review

The Funkmasters-the Great James Brown Rhythm Sections Feature

• Book & 2 CDs Pages: 148
• The music of James Brown analyzed by Allan "Dr. Licks" Slutsky and Chuck Silverman
• Format Book & 2 CDs

In this unique rhythm section workbook, 23 James Brown classics have been transcribed, broken down into individual lessons, and meticulously recreated on two one-hour CDs. Featuring legendary grooves from the guitarists, bassists, and drummers who ignited the Godfather of Soul for over three decades (including Jabo Starks, Bernard Odum, Clyde Stubblefield, Bootsy Collins, Jimmy Nolen, Country Kellum, and more), this book will enlighten and challenge your soul.

Stepdad & Stepdaughter Fun Time: The Rhythm of Waves - Erotic Short Story

Stepdad & Stepdaughter Fun Time: The Rhythm of Waves - Erotic Short Story Review

DESCRIPTION: A quiet afternoon at the pool becomes awkward for Ron when his fussy wife goes home and leaves him alone with their perky stepdaughter, Brittany. Sweet, mild-mannered, and unabashedly immodest, young Brittany is too much to resist. Ron doesn't have to hold back, however, as he discovers his stepdaughter has fiery appetite...

EXCERPT: I watched her, throbbing as I did, as she leaned down and pulled that pesky bikini bottom to her ankles and stepped out of it. Slowly she stood up, revealing a strip of fluffy muff as blonde as the hair on her head. She propped her hands up as if saying here I am. “Ta-daaa!” she said. I clapped, and my cock wagged. Somewhere above us, the thunder rumbled. The sun faded a bit, the last rays shining off of the curves of her shoulders and the line of her waist. She stepped daintily towards me, her hips swishing a little, her lightly haired triangle shifting with each step. I couldn't believe what was coming next, as my stepdaughter eased down upon me, a coy look on her face.

The 90-Minute Baby Sleep Program: Follow Your Child's Natural Sleep Rhythms for Better Nights and Naps

The 90-Minute Baby Sleep Program: Follow Your Child's Natural Sleep Rhythms for Better Nights and Naps Review

For every parent who struggles with their baby's sleep (and for every parent who wishes their toddler had better sleep habits), finally a straightforward, all-natural solution to help baby get the sleep she needs—both through the night and during the day.

A sleep researcher with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, Dr. Polly Moore has created a simple, foolproof method based on the basic human rest and activity cycle (BRAC), which occurs every hour and a half. According to the BRAC, baby should go back for a nap a mere 90 minutes after waking up—that's right: 90 minutes.

The program is called N.A.P.S.—Note time when baby wakes up, Add 90 minutes, Play, feed, or pursue other activities, then, at the end of the 90 minutes, Soothe baby back to sleep. When baby wakes up again, whether after a short or a long nap, start the cycle over. And, although it sounds counterintuitive, frequent napping actually helps baby sleep through the night.

In a reassuring and accessible style, Dr. Moore explains how and why the program works; the benefits of napping—a happier, healthier baby with a headstart on cognitive development and emotional intelligence; how to implement it for babies at various ages, from two weeks to a year; and how to use it to solve common sleep programs, such as a baby's need to be held, baby waking up too early in the morning, baby getting a second wind before bedtime, baby confusing day and night, and more. The Wire-O-bound book includes a guided journal for recording baby's sleepy signals and sleep difficulties, a daily log for keeping track of baby's nap times, and space to note baby's milestones—all peppered with humorous, inspirational quotes.

The Hidden Geometry of Flowers: Living Rhythms, Form and Number

The Hidden Geometry of Flowers: Living Rhythms, Form and Number Review

Can we imagine a world without flowers? Flowers are beautiful, offering us delight in their colour, fragrance and form, as well as their medicinal benefits. Flowers also speak to us in the language of the plant form itself, as cultural symbols in different societies, and at the highest levels of inspiration. In this beautiful and original book, renowned thinker and geometrist Keith Critchlow has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowers that has received perhaps the least attention. This is the flower as teacher of symmetry and geometry (the 'eternal verities', as Plato called them). In this sense, he says, flowers can be treated as sources of remembering -- a way of recalling our own wholeness, as well as awakening our inner power of recognition and consciousness. What is evident in the geometry of the face of a flower can remind us of the geometry that underlies all existence. Working from his own flower photographs and with every geometric pattern hand-drawn, the author reviews the role of flowers within the perspective of our relationship with the natural world. His illuminating study is an attempt to re-engage the human spirit in its intimate relation with all nature.