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Oliver Sacks Now
["... Now" is a short post of cog sci topics in the news]Oliver Sacks is plugging his new book, Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain
(New York : Knopf, 2007), and you can follow along:
* He had an article in the Sept. 24 issue of
The New Yorker A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Abyss (subtitle: music & amnesia).
* He was briefly interviewed in the October issue of
Wired, with expanded coverage online: Oliver Sacks on Earworms, Stevie Wonder and the View From Mescaline Mountain.
* And while this isn’t recent, Jaime Diskin blogs about an interview in which Oliver Sacks talks about musicophilia. Diskin says:
"In January, 2006, everyone's favourite Brain doctor, Oliver Sacks spoke with the New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar in a series hosted by the Columbia University Arts Initiative. One of the subjects he talked about was the brain's reaction to music and in particular, the strange phenomenon of musicphilia." (and check out the rest of Jaime Diskin’s blog as there is some cool multimedia / neuroscience stuff).edited to add* On Nov. 1, Oliver Sacks was interviewed on WHYY's Radio Times: "In his new book, Musicophilia, neurologist OLIVER SACKS examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people." Listen to the show via RealAudio or download in iTunes (usually available only for a limited time)
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Npr "fresh Air": Oliver Sacks Talks About Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen:
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/10/164817448/fresh-air-weekend-oliver-sacks-and-oddly-normal?ft=1&f=13...
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Audio: Oliver Sacks At Free Library Of Philadelphia (nov 2010)
Free Library of Philadelphia's podcast of Oliver Sacks' Nov 2010 presentation: Click http://libwww.freelibrary.org/podcast/media/20101110-olivers.mp3...
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Amnesia In The New Yorker
From the current issue of The New Yorker: The Abyss Music and amnesia by Oliver Sacks September 24, 2007 The experience of Clive Wearing and his spouse, Deborah. [ ... Read the article ... ]...
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Awakenings At Columbia
From The New York Times: Oliver Sacks Joins Columbia Faculty By MOTOKO RICH September 1, 2007 Attracted by his breadth of interests, ranging from schizophrenia to music, Columbia University has appointed Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and writer, as its...
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