| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation (enhanced); Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC. |
| Performer |
Narrated and presented by Alan Yentob. |
| Event |
Originally broadcast by BBC1 June 3, 2008 as part of Imagine. Broadcast in the US in 2009 as part of Nova. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| 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. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned; described for the visually impaired. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Music -- Psychological aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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| Added Author |
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
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Yentob, Alan.
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Lockwood, Louise.
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Murdock, Ryan.
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PBS Home Video.
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| Added Title |
Nova (Television program)
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Imagine (Television program)
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| ISBN |
9781593759049 |
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1593759045 |
| Standard No. |
783421432093 |
| Music No. |
WG43209 PBS Home Video |
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