The study of music and the brain has provided some incredible and life changing knowledge and understandings. Here is a video which points out how the use of pulse, beat and rhythm can enhance the significant issues of movement when someone has Parkinson’s disease. Not only does it help overcome the freeze reaction, the inability […]

Founder of Bigger Better Brains, Dr Anita Collins, receives hundreds of emails from students around the world asking questions about neuromusical research. She can’t always get to answer every email which is really disappointing to her, so she decided to record a short video about the most asked questions she has received. Share this page […]

Here is a wonderful innovation inspired by the difficult times we live in during COVID-19. The great singer, Renee Fleming, who normally hosts the extraordinary live series at The Kennedy Centre called Music and the Mind, is now hosting a weekly podcast on youtube every week. If you don’t have an hour to listen to […]

The BBB Team has always enjoyed the way WIRED takes complex topics and presents them in engaging and easy to consume ways for a general audience, while also remaining factually accurate. In this video, they explore many of the ways neuroscientists research the effect of music learning on brain development and function. This video also […]

Professor Laurel J Trainor is an Auditory Development researcher at McMaster University. This video is of her presentation to the Lullaby Talk at Carnegie Hall in June 2020. Trainor discusses some of her research into the role of music in early development.  Trainor states that “the world of the infant is musical”, something that the […]

Welcome to our newest release, the BBB Explained video series. The next video in our series is on Task Switching. This video is a great advocacy tool for explaining how music learning can develop Task Switching skills.  Task Switching is the ability to shift attention form one task to another. These videos are designed to […]

Welcome to our newest release, the BBB Explained video series. The next video in our series is on Word Decoding. This video is a great advocacy tool for explaining how music learning can help students enhance Word Decoding. Word Decoding is the ability to connect letters with their sounds, identify pattens in words and pronounce […]

Welcome to our newest release, the BBB Explained video series. The next video in our series is on Language Syntax. This video is a great advocacy tool for explaining how music learning can enhance Language Syntax. Language Syntax is the set of rules, principles and processes that govern the structure of sentences. These videos are […]

Welcome to our newest release, the BBB Explained video series. The next video in our series is on Reading Difficulties. This video is a great advocacy tool for explaining how music learning can help Reading Difficulties. Reading Difficulties are a condition that causes a delay or difficulty with reading. These videos are designed to focus […]

Welcome to our newest release, the BBB Explained video series. The next video in our series is on Cognitive Flexibility. This video is a great advocacy tool for explaining how music learning can develop Cognitive Flexibility. Cognitive Flexibility is the ability to adapt behaviours in response to changes in the environment around you. These videos […]

Welcome to our newest release, the BBB Explained video series. The next video in our series is on auditory and working memory. This video is a great advocacy tool for explaining how music learning can develop auditory and working memory skills. Auditory memory helps us to remember things we have heard, retrieve those memories when […]