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Charles Limb: Your brain on improv

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Published: June 5, 2018

| TED Talks, You Tube

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.