Finding Rhythm in the News
Covered by NBC4, DCist and dubbed “The most DC thing” by WUSA9 news, the new children’s musical—Finding Rhythm: A journey through the musical brain—is making its way into homes and schools across Washington DC.
A go-Go Inspired musical to teach kids about music and the brain
The DCist and NPR did a feature segment on our children’s musical Finding Rhythm! Read the DCist and Listen to NPR.
the intersection of children’s entertainment, brain science and go-go: only in DC
NBC4’s The Tommy Show interviewed Dr. Jessica and Dante’ Pope on the premiere of our educational musical based in science and rhythm. Watch NBC4.
Research on the Musical Brain in the News
My research in music neuroscience examines how musical rhythm shapes the brain—and the body—from infancy, what can go wrong in the musical brain, and how music can be a tool for recovery. Here are some samples of my work in the news.
BABIES FEEL THE BEAT IN MUSIC
Published in the journal Science in 2005, this study was the first ever to show that the way in which we bounce babies to the beat shapes the way they hear the rhythm. It was covered by USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and CBC radio live. It also made a feature segment on the Discovery Channel! Watch it here.
BORN TO DANCE, BUT BEATDEAF
Think you have no rhythm? In 2011 in the journal Neuropsychologia, I documented the world's first case of "beat deafness". Meet Mathieu, the guy who can't find the beat of music. Read NPR Music.
COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS MOVE IN TIME TO tHE DRUM
This study, published in Hearing Research in 2015, showed that Deaf individuals with cochlear implants can groove to the beat of music... especially when the music is drums. Read NPR Health.
THE MIND ON MUSIC
Georgetown Medicine Magazine’s piece in 2018 about how we are studying the musical brain, especially the neural circuitry for rhythm. Read Georgetown Medicine Magazine.
