Summary
Can the power of music make the brain come alive? Dr. Oliver Sacks, author of Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain, is involved with this study as Nova follows four individuals: Matt Giordano (United States), Derek Paravicini (England), Anne Barker (Ireland), and Tony Cicoria (United States) to investigate music's strange, surprising, and still unexplained power over the human mind. While these extraordinary stories offer examples of music's unquestionable power over the mind, scientists have yet to fully understand what happens in the brain as we experience music. In an effort to unravel the mystery, Nova puts Sacks himself into a functional MRI machine for two experiments.Additional Information
| Subjects |
Music
-- Psychological aspects.
Documentary television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. |
| Publisher | [Arlington, Va.?] :PBS Distribution,2009 |
| Edition | Widescreen. |
| Other Titles | Nova (Television program) |
| Contributors |
Lockwood, Louise,
director. Murdock, Ryan, producer. Yentob, Alan, narrator. Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015. British Broadcasting Corporation, production company. WGBH Educational Foundation, production company. PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher. |
| Participants/Performers |
Narrated and presented by Alan Yentob ; with Dr. Oliver Sacks. |
| Other Contributors |
Editors, James Hamilton, Nathan Hendrie. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Language |
English Closed-captioned; described for the visually impaired. |
| Notes |
Originally produced in 2008 for broadcast by BBC1 as part of Imagine; with additional material. |
| System Details |
DVD; widescreen, enhanced for 16x9 televisions; Dolby digital stereo. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN | 9781593759049 1593759045 |
| Other | Classic View |