From: MARK TRAMO To: Nancy Bojanic Cc: Rob Fishman Bee: jeevacation@gmail.com Subject: To Ms Bojanic re: Mozart & the Mind Symposium, Lecture Synopsis Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:56:17 +0000 Greetings, Nancy - Thank you for sharing the excerpts from all the synopses. Please find below two versions my synopsis. (FYI - readingSrough/editing what you sent: you listed Dr Tomaino's academic degree but not the others'; also, she is a D.A., not a MI.). available to talk this Sunday afternoon if you and/or Tim would like. Best wishes for all going smoothly these last few days before The Festival! Yours, Mark *********** BRAIN ORGANIZATION & MUSIC COGNITION Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD - SYNOPSIS VERSION 1 (81 words) Humans' universal and innate capacity to apprehend emotion and meaning in music emerges from neural activity in widelydistributed anatomical structures that evolved during different epochs of brain evolution. Drawing from basic and clinical research findings accrued over the 150 years of modern empirical work on structure-function correlates in humans and other animals, Dr. Tramo paints a big-picture view of how the brain works in general and in particular with respect to music cognition and the utility of music in health care. - SYNOPSIS VERSION 2 (64 words) Humans' universal and innate capacity to apprehend emotion and meaning in music emerges from neural activity in widelydistributed anatomical structures. Drawing from basic and clinical research findings on structure-function correlates in humans and other animals, Dr. Tramo paints a big-picture view of how the brain works in general and in particular with respect to music cognition and the utility of music in health care. ************ Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD Dept of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Music Industry, Science & Technology Program, Dept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science Co-Director, University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI) EFTA00654857 http://www.BrainMusic.org http://merci.ucsd.edu EFTA00654858