Welcome to our newest release, the BBB Explained video series. We are launching this series with a hot topic – inhibitory control otherwise known as the ability to keep your cool and stay on task. These videos are designed to focus on a single area of learning that music learning can enhance. We want to help […]

An extensive study has been released which found that students who studied music in primary school and into high school were almost one year ahead of their non-musically trained peers in their Maths, Science and English performance. This study is receiving a lot of attention on social media because it has such a large sample […]

Professor Alan Harvey takes us back in human history to take us forward in our understanding of what it is to be human and how music is an essential part of our development. Take the time to listen to how he sets up our understanding of the place and purpose of music in our evolution […]

Ever wondered what the feeling of pleasure looks like in our brains? Using music as a tool to find this out is perfect as it sets off the reward or pleasure network in a very powerful and immediate way. Professor Zatorre looks at how our pleasure response predicts how much money we would spend on […]

At BBB, we like to explain executive functions as “Adult Skills”. This great video by Sprouts on YouTube (Here’s their channel) gives a great analogy, from Psychologist Deborah Phillips, of the brain being an air traffic control centre that would exist in pure chaos if it were not for executive functions. We know that music learning […]