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How sonatas help scientists understand the brain
Scientists at the University of Oxford are using Johann Sebastian Bach sonatas to find out how the human brain ages. What is it about music that makes it useful for neuroscience?
Researchers think the music of Johann Sebastian Bach could help them spot dementia earlier in patients. It's all to do with measuring brain activity when people hear familiar melodies - and how it changes as we get older. So what is it about music that makes it so useful for neuroscience? For this episode of our 5 Minutes On podcast, music journalist Will Chalk speaks to Dr Leonardo Bonetti, from the University of Oxford, to find out.
