Re: Fwd: Catching up
its been too long.. bring me up to speed
no, another scientist for the list. / tramo was the head
Yes, indeed!...Will call via Lesley tomorrow (Thurs 11/5) - What are you up to these days? Are you back from Europe? Ba=k in science? We need you!
Just got a paper accepted on autonomic responses to pain an= their modulation by music in premature infants...going to the annual Soci=ty for Neuroscience meeting in SD next week to present some work on the ro=e of
human auditory cortex in intensity processing and loudness perception=..got nominated for governship on the LA Board of the Natl Academy of Reco=ding Arts & Sciences...
And am banging away on the innateness hypothesis from a mat=ematical perspective: Simplicity in spatial/spectral (harmonic) relati=nships in an instant of time and simplicity in temporal (rhythmic) relatio=ships -
If we show that we can attenuate pain-induced hea=t-rate increases in premies with consonant - but not dissonant - music, or=with metrical but not non-metrical rhythms (carried by synthetic heartbeat=sounds), we'd have evidence from the brains of babies that are MINUS 1=or more months of age! An Institute summer student and I composed and synt=esized piano lullabies and random/metrical rhythms via Sibelius and a numb=r generator, and have a Logic Studio setup up and running...we sent FSN a =roposal on this one last year. The Grammy Foundation awarded us a grant bu= cut the budget from $40k to $25k because they were short on funds. The Do=is Duke Foundation said they loved the proposal but are/were under water..=
And trying to find the time needed to finish my book propos=l for ICM Talent - an "advance on an advance" - maybe a Guggen=eim Foundation grant? Otherwise, that time has to go into seeing my thousa=dth stroke patient, hundredth MS patient, etc. My book agent, Kris Dahl,=who has a nice stable of NY Times top-20 fiction and non-fiction writers, =hinks I can get upwards of 100-150k as an advance, given my background and=credentials. Getting tapped by the senior commissionng neuroscience/psycho=ogy editor at Oxford Press to do the first Cognitive Neuroscience of Music=textbook won't hurt either. For that honor, Oxford gave me a whoppi=g 2.2k advance!
Peace & Love,
Mark
taken now
Ok thanks. Just wanted to be clear. It's almost 12=30, I must be completely obsessed with working on your stuff, but I think =n the long run, it will be a tremendous benefit to science and you.