Toward an epigenetic view of our musical mind.
We are transient beings, in a world of constantly changing culture. At home in the fields of Art and Science, seemingly capable of magnificent abstractions, humans have an intense need to externalize their insights. Music is an art and a highly transmissible cultural product, but we still have an incomplete understanding of how our musical experience shapes and is vividly retained within our brain, and how it affects our behavior. However, the developing field of social epigenetics is now helping us to describe how communication and emotion, prime hallmarks of music, can be linked to a transmissible, biochemical change.
Laboratory of Tumor Genetics, National Cancer Institute Genova, Italy.
Claudio
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Brigati
Maria Cristina
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Saccuman
Barbara
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Banelli
Angela
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Di Vinci
Ida
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Casciano
Luana
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Borzì
Alessandra
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Forlani
Giorgio
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Allemanni
Massimo
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Romani