Having a little bit of fun

This posting is about having a little bit of fun – but serious “fun” – in neuroscience. The reason it is fun is because we get to use the pop song “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor (featured in Rocky III) as a stimulus set for experiments in neuroscience. 

In particular, I want to point my readers to a recent abstract I published in the Frontiers in Neuroscience series that summarizes the interesting results found from this seemingly trivial piece of music. The topic, “Tracking learning of change in American popular music using single-trial EEG decoding,” was presented last week at the BC11 : Computational Neuroscience & Neurotechnology Bernstein Conference & Neurex Annual Meeting 2011 in Freiburg, Germany. 

Happy reading and if you want to listen to “Eye of the Tiger” while reading about its more serious side and its implications for neuroscience then you can do so by clicking here.