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• › The effect of music on the brain

  11/Oct/2018
  A  talk by Alan Harvey on the effect of music on the brain was given at a TEDx event on Remembrance Day, November 2017, using the TED conference format but independently organised by a local community. https://youtu.be/MZFFwy5fwYI.
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• › What Happens to your Brain when you Sing?

  22/Sep/2018
  Singing in the shower makes your voice sound great, but is it also good for your mental health? We asked Professor Sarah Wilson from the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. You can view/hear the video at https://youtu.be/lSvY_oIIwMM or at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvY_oIIwMM&feature=youtu.be. Wilson suggests that yes, singing offers a range…
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• › Group singing “can improve mental health”

  25/Jan/2018
  Group singing "can improve mental health"- Community singing 'improves mental health and helps recovery' = an article by Philippa Roxby, a Health reporter, BBC News, dated 21 December 2017. You may be interested in this item from the BBC News website from 21st December, which describes how community singing can…
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• › Learning Music Can Help Critical Thinking

  09/Apr/2017
  Article by Graham Strahle · March 27, 2017 https://musicaustralia.org.au/author/grahams/ Quite apart from the merits of teaching music for its own sake, there is a view being increasingly voiced among education researchers that music can be used to promote critical thinking in children. This was a topic that surfaced…
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