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The new commercial in the Palm Pre series is set in totally different mood and melody. The ad is indeed very calm and serene. This is quite a contrast to other videos which simply bombard the senses with audio-visual graphics. The subtle background melody does linger longer in minds. Once again it’s a cell phone ad but promotes Microsoft’s new search [...]

British neurologist Oliver Sacks believes that listening to patients should be at the heart of medicine. In his 2007 book entitled ‘Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,’ he explores the place of melody in the human brain that is ‘capable of expressing and evoking emotions and mental states that go beyond language.’ Music, thus, has a [...]