From: MARK TRAMO To: Nancy Bojanic Cc: Rob Fishman Bee: [email protected] 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 widely- distributed 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 widely- distributed 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, Univers