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 […]
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Part of the Triple J ‘What is Music’ series. Does listening to classical music make you smarter? The BBB Team focuses on teaching educators to always think critically about common concepts or theories. It is so easy for us to assume that something we have heard of A LOT must be true. This video looks […]
We at BBB have always believed that music education does something “else” for students. This video, from one of our favourite researchers, Dr Nina Kraus, talks about how a musicians brain differs from that of a non-musicians. What we have always found most pertinent about this video, is that she states how a musicians advanced […]
Inspiring our students to practice. Something we all know is easier said than done. Explaining to our students WHY practicing is so important can be even harder. Here’s a great video that you can share with your students to explain to them HOW practicing makes them better. It’s a visually engaging video and it can […]
Lockdown or not, getting your students to understand the important role music learning is playing for them can be really difficult. Sometimes it’s even harder to get this message across to their parents! Here is a great resource you can use to inform your students and their parents of the benefits of music learning on […]
Sound is made up of a number of different “ingredients”, as our favourite researcher Dr Nina Kraus explains below. Understanding the different ingredients and how the brain processes them can help us when approaching certain learning difficulties that may be associated to hearing, such as dyslexia. Check out this video and think about how you […]
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