Listen: The Music of a Human Brain

By Brandon KeimEmail Author

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  Musical score based on the neurological activity of a 31-year-old woman. Image: Lu et al./PLoS One
  Researchers have turned human mental activity into music, and it sounds uncannily like free-form jazz piano.
  The new brain-to-sound method translates a brain’s electrical fluctuations to pitch and blood flows to intensity. With more sophisticated scores and trained ears, a mind might be heard as a cognitive symphony.
  “We hope the on-going progresses of the brain signals-based music will properly unravel part of the truth in the brain,” wrote neuroscientists led by Jing Lu and Dezhong Yao of China’s University of Electronic Science and Technology in a study Nov. 14 in the online journal PLoS One.

  
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