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IMAGE: Inspired by creative efforts of people around the world to reproduce music-making together while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and the University of. view more
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Music is a tool that has accompanied our evolutionary journey and provided a sense of comfort and social connection for millennia. New research published today in the
American Psychologist provides a neuroscientific understanding of the social connection with a new map of the brain when playing music.
A team of social neuroscientists from Bar-Ilan University and the University of Chicago introduced a model of the brain that sheds light on the social functions and brain mechanisms that underlie the musical adaptations used for human connection. The model is unique because it focuses on what happens in the brain when people make music together
Opinion: How our pandemic walking habits could boost the economy
Meeting a friend for a socially distanced walk became the hallmark of social life during the pandemic. Maintaining the habit would be good not only for our own health but for that of the economy, says Kate Ferguson.
Going for a walk can t do any harm, and your dog won t complain either
Throughout the pandemic, my social life has resembled that of a Jane Austen character. Shunning the beady-eyed gaze of ballroom or perhaps more accurately barroom society, I and a carefully selected other meet in picturesque surroundings.
Our encounter begins with a friendly nod and the taciturn acknowledgement that if circumstances were different, we might risk an embrace. Instead, we walk side by side, at a distance, remarking on the beauty of the flowers, the pleasant melody of birdsong, the undeniable scent of spring in the air.
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(NYTIMES) When schools shut down last spring, Carson Roubison, a charter school student in Phoenix, Arizona, was initially relieved. There were some difficulties in those early days at home - when classes went online, Carson and his parents, both public school teachers, had to share the sole family computer. But Carson s stress levels fell as school became less demanding during the transition to distance learning. I wasn t aware of the giant impact the pandemic would have, he said, so I was excited, to be honest, to have some time off school. But things changed in autumn. The academic load went back to pre-pandemic levels even though learning was still remote. Carson, a senior, struggled to stay motivated. His mental health suffered. He hoped to attend community college the following autumn, but grew increasingly terrified that the education he d received in high school over the past year would leave him unprepared.