The goal of this project was to describe a real time music composition through an fMRI based-biofeedback system that monitors the activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) of the brain. Based on creativity and neuroscience research, it is suggested that increased MPFC activity is closely associated with creativity in jazz improvisation. [51]

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Creator

• Alsamarai, Sinan Saad

Subject

• Culture

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-070611-142945

Keyword

• Human-computer interaction
• Psychoacoustics
• Interactive multimedia

Advisor

• Bianchi, Frederick W.

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-07-06

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright