Attention is a cognitive ability essential to our daily lives and one of the key productive factors in the modern economy. It is a way of prioritizing information. Our capacity to acquire and process ...
STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Using brain images of people listening to short symphonies by an obscure 18 th-century composer, a research team from the Stanford University School of Medicine has ...
The protagonist of Richard Powers’s 2014 novel, “Orfeo,” is a composer named Peter Els who, late in life, begins to dabble in biotechnology. Els’s attempts to “compose” in DNA turn him into a ...