Dr. Charles Limb is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology ā Head and Neck Surgery, as well as faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He combines his two passions to study the way the brain creates and perceives music. He's a hearing specialist and surgeon at Johns Hopkins who performs cochlear implantations. In his free time, he plays sax, piano and bass.
In search of a better understanding of how the mind processes complex auditory stimuli such as music, Dr. Limb has been working with Dr. Allen Braun to look at the brains of improvising musicians and study what parts of the brain are involved when a musician is really in the groove.
[Watch Dr. Charles Limb's TED Talk at http://www.npr.org/2014/10/03/...tive-brain-look-like]
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