Musicians who learn a new melody demonstrate enhanced skill after a night's sleep

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Study also finds that gains in speed and accuracy declined after sleep for musicians who practiced the day before on two similar melodies one after another

A new study that examined how the brain learns and retains motor skills provides insight into musical skill.

Performance of a musical task improved among pianists whose practice of a new melody was followed by a night of sleep, says researcher Sarah E. Allen, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

The study is among the first to look at whether sleep enhances the learning process for musicians practicing a new piano melody.

The study found, however, that when two similar melodies were practiced one after the other, followed by sleep, any gains in speed and accuracy achieved during practice diminished overnight, said Allen, an assistant professor of music education in SMU's Meadows School of the Arts.

"The goal is to understand how the brain decides what to keep, what to discard, what to enhance, because our brains are receiving such a rich data stream and we don't have room for everything," Allen said. "I was fascinated to study this because as musicians we practice melodies in juxtaposition with one another all the time."

Surprisingly, in a third result the study found that when two similar musical pieces were practiced one after the other, followed by practice of the first melody again, a night's sleep enhanced pianists' skills on the first melody, she said.

"The really unexpected result that I found was that for those subjects who learned the two melodies, if before they left practice they played the first melody again, it seemed to reactivate that memory so that they did improve overnight. Replaying it seemed to counteract the interference of learning a second melody."

The study adds to a body of research in recent decades that has found the brain keeps processing the learning of a new motor skill even after active training has stopped. That's also the case during sleep.

The findings may in the future guide the teaching of music, Allen said.

"In any task we want to maximize our time and our effort. This research can ultimately help us practice in an advantageous way and teach in an advantageous way," Allen said. "There could be pedagogical benefits for the order in which you practice things, but it's really too early to say. We want to research this further."

The study, "Memory Stabilization and Enhancement Following Music Practice," will be published in the journal Psychology of Music. The journal has made the article available online ahead of print publication at http://bit.ly/UOUrTD.

New study builds on earlier brain research in rats and humans

Researchers in the field of procedural memory consolidation have systematically examined the process in both rats and humans.

Studies have found that after practice of a motor skill, such as running a maze or completing a handwriting task, the areas of the brain activated during practice continue to be active for about four to six hours afterward. Activation occurs whether a subject is, for example, eating, resting, shopping or watching TV, Allen said.

Also, researchers have found that the area of the brain activated during practice of the skill is activated again during sleep, she said, essentially recalling the skill and enhancing and reinforcing it. For motor skills such as finger-tapping a sequence, research found that performance tends to be 10 percent to 13 percent more efficient after sleep, with fewer errors.

"There are two phases of memory consolidation. We refer to the four to six hours after training as stabilization. We refer to the phase during sleep as enhancement," Allen said. "We know that sleep seems to play a very important role. It makes memories a more permanent, less fragile part of the brain."

Allen's finding with musicians that practicing a second melody interfered with retaining the first melody is consistent with a growing number of similar research studies that have found learning a second motor skill task interferes with enhancement of the first task.

Impact of sleep on learning for musicians

For Allen's study, 60 undergraduate and graduate music majors participated in the research.

Divided into four groups, each musician practiced either one or both melodies during evening sessions, then returned the next day after sleep to be tested on their performance of the target melody.

The subjects learned the melodies on a Roland digital piano, practicing with their left hand during 12 30-second practice blocks separated by 30-second rest intervals. Software written for the experiment made it possible to digitally recorde musical instrument data from the performances. The number of correct key presses per 30-second block reflected speed and accuracy.

Musicians who learned a single melody showed performance gains on the test the next day.

Those who learned a second melody immediately after learning the target melody didn't get any overnight enhancement in the first melody.

Those who learned two melodies, but practiced the first one again before going home to sleep, showed overnight enhancement when tested on the first melody.

"This was the most surprising finding, and perhaps the most important," Allen reported in the Psychology of Music. "The brief test of melody A following the learning of melody B at the end of the evening training session seems to have reactivated the memory of melody A in a way that inhibited the interfering effects of learning melody B that were observed in the AB-sleep-A group."

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Southern Methodist University

Study also finds that gains in speed and accuracy declined after sleep for musicians who practiced the day before on two similar melodies one after another

A new study that examined how the brain learns and retains motor skills provides insight into musical skill.

Performance of a musical task improved among pianists whose practice of a new melody was followed by a night of sleep, says researcher Sarah E. Allen, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

The study is among the first to look at whether sleep enhances the learning process for musicians practicing a new piano melody.

The study found, however, that when two similar melodies were practiced one after the other, followed by sleep, any gains in speed and accuracy achieved during practice diminished overnight, said Allen, an assistant professor of music education in SMU's Meadows School of the Arts.

"The goal is to understand how the brain decides what to keep, what to discard, what to enhance, because our brains are receiving such a rich data stream and we don't have room for everything," Allen said. "I was fascinated to study this because as musicians we practice melodies in juxtaposition with one another all the time."

Surprisingly, in a third result the study found that when two similar musical pieces were practiced one after the other, followed by practice of the first melody again, a night's sleep enhanced pianists' skills on the first melody, she said.

"The really unexpected result that I found was that for those subjects who learned the two melodies, if before they left practice they played the first melody again, it seemed to reactivate that memory so that they did improve overnight. Replaying it seemed to counteract the interference of learning a second melody."

The study adds to a body of research in recent decades that has found the brain keeps processing the learning of a new motor skill even after active training has stopped. That's also the case during sleep.

The findings may in the future guide the teaching of music, Allen said.

"In any task we want to maximize our time and our effort. This research can ultimately help us practice in an advantageous way and teach in an advantageous way," Allen said. "There could be pedagogical benefits for the order in which you practice things, but it's really too early to say. We want to research this further."

The study, "Memory Stabilization and Enhancement Following Music Practice," will be published in the journal Psychology of Music. The journal has made the article available online ahead of print publication at http://bit.ly/UOUrTD.

New study builds on earlier brain research in rats and humans

Researchers in the field of procedural memory consolidation have systematically examined the process in both rats and humans.

Studies have found that after practice of a motor skill, such as running a maze or completing a handwriting task, the areas of the brain activated during practice continue to be active for about four to six hours afterward. Activation occurs whether a subject is, for example, eating, resting, shopping or watching TV, Allen said.

Also, researchers have found that the area of the brain activated during practice of the skill is activated again during sleep, she said, essentially recalling the skill and enhancing and reinforcing it. For motor skills such as finger-tapping a sequence, research found that performance tends to be 10 percent to 13 percent more efficient after sleep, with fewer errors.

"There are two phases of memory consolidation. We refer to the four to six hours after training as stabilization. We refer to the phase during sleep as enhancement," Allen said. "We know that sleep seems to play a very important role. It makes memories a more permanent, less fragile part of the brain."

Allen's finding with musicians that practicing a second melody interfered with retaining the first melody is consistent with a growing number of similar research studies that have found learning a second motor skill task interferes with enhancement of the first task.

Impact of sleep on learning for musicians

For Allen's study, 60 undergraduate and graduate music majors participated in the research.

Divided into four groups, each musician practiced either one or both melodies during evening sessions, then returned the next day after sleep to be tested on their performance of the target melody.

The subjects learned the melodies on a Roland digital piano, practicing with their left hand during 12 30-second practice blocks separated by 30-second rest intervals. Software written for the experiment made it possible to digitally recorde musical instrument data from the performances. The number of correct key presses per 30-second block reflected speed and accuracy.

Musicians who learned a single melody showed performance gains on the test the next day.

Those who learned a second melody immediately after learning the target melody didn't get any overnight enhancement in the first melody.

Those who learned two melodies, but practiced the first one again before going home to sleep, showed overnight enhancement when tested on the first melody.

"This was the most surprising finding, and perhaps the most important," Allen reported in the Psychology of Music. "The brief test of melody A following the learning of melody B at the end of the evening training session seems to have reactivated the memory of melody A in a way that inhibited the interfering effects of learning melody B that were observed in the AB-sleep-A group."

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SMU has an uplink facility located on campus for live TV, radio, or online interviews. To speak with an SMU expert or book an SMU guest in the studio, call SMU News & Communications at 214-768-7650.

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Job Description The Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library is seeking an enthusiastic, creative and service-oriented professional to join our team as Assistant Law Librarian for Reference. This is a full-time position, available immediately.

Under the general supervision of the Associate Law Librarian for Research and Electronic Services, reference librarians provide high-quality legal and non-legal reference assistance to law library users including students, faculty, members of the local bar, and the general public. This service includes providing extensive support for law faculty research through our faculty services program, interacting with the students in an instructional role, and advising the Associate Law Librarian for Research and Electronic Services on reference department policy and strategic planning.

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Salary based on education, qualifications and experience, with a minimum annual starting salary of $44,000. Emory University offers an excellent benefits package, including an array of retirement plans, courtesy scholarships for employee, spouse and dependent children and support for professional development and involvement in professional organizations.

Please include a cover letter, resume, and the names and contact information for three references, and address the cover letter to Search Committee, Assistant Law Librarian for Reference Position. We will begin accepting and reviewing applications immediately and continue until the position is filled. Applications received by April 19 will receive priority consideration. For additional information, please contact Thomas Sneed at thomas.sneed@emory.edu. Submitted on 2013-03-30

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Obama's Growth-Busting Budget - Larry Kudlow - Townhall Finance ...

No matter how you slice the Obama budget pie, the inescapable fact is that the president wants to get rid of the roughly $1 trillion budget-cutting sequester and substitute in a $1 trillion-plus tax hike. In other words, more spending, more taxing. Growth-busting. The GOP should just say no.
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And let me provide some counsel to my Republican friends in Washington, in particular in the House. Balanced budgets don?t create growth. This mantra is wrong. It?s growth that creates balanced budgets.
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Cut spending? That?s a pro-growth measure. Lower tax rates? Another pro-growth measure. The combination of limited government and true tax reform will balance the budget soon enough, ?with government coming in at a smaller share of GDP while sufficient investment and work incentives get growth moving towards the 4 or 5 percent range.
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That kind of growth would make up for the lost ground of the past 15 years. And if you add in deregulation and a sound King Dollar, you?d have a growth budget that would propel America back into prosperity.
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Indeed, with some tweaking of eligibility requirements, a true economic-growth budget would lower food-stamp enrollment, unemployment compensation, disability benefits, and other forms of welfare-dependency spending that plague the country. Medicare is a more complex issue, but Social Security would be solved by a long-run growth spurt.
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Of course, this is not what President Obama is aiming for. He wants more than $500 billion in tax revenue from a 28 percent income-tax deduction limit. But this is not tax reform, since there are no offsetting reductions in marginal tax rates. He also wants a $50 billion Buffett rule that would jack up taxes on capital gains and dividends. He would slap energy companies with a $100 billion tax hike, at least. Offshore corporate income would see a $150 billion tax increase. And banks and financial institutions would get slammed with $100 billion in new taxes.
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And there?s no serious corporate tax reform in this budget. Even with some temporary tax-credit offsets, some have suggested that there might be room for a 1 percentage point business tax cut, from 35 percent to 34 percent. That?s pathetic. Instead, the most powerful growth measure would have small-business, sub-chapter-S-type firms pay the same 25 percent tax rate as large C-corp companies might. This would be a huge growth booster, and it would attract investment from all over the world.
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Then there?s the budget?s incredible and arbitrary limit or tax on -- or even possible confiscation of -- IRA-type tax-advantaged savings accounts. Who exactly gave the federal government the right to tell free people how much they can save for retirement? Obama wants a $3 million cap on these accounts. And he thinks $205,000 a year in some kind of annuity would ?be substantially more than needed for reasonable retirement.? This is statism at its worst.
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Plus, people pay taxes when they redeem their IRAs. And on top of that, the U.S.A. needs more saving to promote more investment and create more jobs and growth. Better that savings and investment are tax free and we tax consumption instead.
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I don?t have a problem with Obama?s modest change in the cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security, called the chain CPI. That could be worked in someplace. But in terms of overall entitlement reform, it?s just a drop in the bucket.
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It may be possible for Republicans and Democrats to work out deals on gun background checks that won?t violate the second amendment. And a good deal on immigration reform would substantially promote economic growth in the years ahead. But the GOP should not get suckered into a budget deal that ends the spending-cut sequester and delivers yet another huge tax hike.
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The litmus test for budgets should be growth. More spending and taxing won?t get you there. One of the few economic positives from recent government policy is that federal spending could come down a couple trillion dollars if the last two budget deals are held in place. But limiting tax deductions with no offset in marginal tax rates is neither tax reform nor pro-growth.
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I?ll give a modest ?yes? to political thaws on gun control and immigration if they?re done right. But I give an absolute ?no? to the Obama high-tax-and-spend budget proposal.
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? Larry Kudlow, NRO?s economics editor, is host of CNBC?s The Kudlow Report and author of the daily web log, Kudlow?s Money Politic$.

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Reactivating memories during sleep: Memory rehearsal during sleep can make a big difference in remembering later

Apr. 12, 2013 ? Why do some memories last a lifetime while others disappear quickly? A new study suggests that memories rehearsed, during either sleep or waking, can have an impact on memory consolidation and on what is remembered later.

The new Northwestern University study shows that when the information that makes up a memory has a high value (associated with, for example, making more money), the memory is more likely to be rehearsed and consolidated during sleep and, thus, be remembered later.

Also, through the use of a direct manipulation of sleep, the research demonstrated a way to encourage the reactivation of low-value memories so they too were remembered later.

Delphine Oudiette, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Northwestern and lead author of the study, designed the experiment to study how participants remembered locations of objects on a computer screen. A value assigned to each object informed participants how much money they could make if they remembered it later on the test.

"The pay-off was much higher for some of the objects than for others," explained Ken Paller, professor of psychology at Northwestern and co-author of the study. "In other words, we manipulated the value of the memories -- some were valuable memories and others not so much, just as the things we experience each day vary in the extent to which we'd like to be able to remember them later."

When each object was shown, it was accompanied by a characteristic sound. For example, a tea kettle would appear with a whistling sound. During both states of wakefulness and sleep, some of the sounds were played alone, quite softly, essentially reminding participants of the low-value items.

Participants remembered the low-value associations better when the sound presentations occurred during sleep.

"We think that what's happening during sleep is basically the reactivation of that information," Oudiette said. "We can provoke the reactivation by presenting those sounds, therefore energizing the low-value memories so they get stored better."

The research poses provocative implications about the role memory reactivation during sleep could play in improving memory storage," said Paller, director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at Northwestern. "Whatever makes you rehearse during sleep is going to determine what you remember later, and conversely, what you're going to forget."

Many memories that are stored during the day are not remembered.

"We think one of the reasons for that is that we have to rehearse memories in order to keep them. When you practice and rehearse, you increase the likelihood of later remembering," Oudiette said. "And a lot of our rehearsal happens when we don't even realize it -- while we're asleep."

Paller said selectivity of memory consolidation is not well understood. Most efforts in memory research have focused on what happens when you first form a memory and on what happens when you retrieve a memory.

"The in-between time is what we want to learn more about, because a fascinating aspect of memory storage is that it is not static," Paller said. "Memories in our brain are changing all of the time. Sometimes you improve memory storage by rehearsing all the details, so maybe later you remember better -- or maybe worse if you've embellished too much.

"The fact that this critical memory reactivation transpires during sleep has mostly been hidden from us, from humanity, because we don't realize so much of what's happening while we're asleep," he said.

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New hospital meets a need for behavioral health care - DavidsonNews

Posted on 12 April 2013.

Architect?s illustration shows the plan for Carolinas HealthCare System?s new Davidson hospital, off NC 73.

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

Work is underway on Carolinas HealthCare System?s $36 million behavioral health ?campus? off N.C. 73 in east Davidson, and if all goes as planned, the hospital and out-patient mental health clinic will open in 2014.

Ground was broken Friday at the site, where CHS officials, local leaders and mental health experts talked about plans for the hospital, which they say fills a critical need in the region.

The 67,280 square-foot hospital in Davidson will have 155 employees ? including physicians and other staff ? and 66 ?acute-care? beds, providing short term hospitalization for adult patients in crisis. Right now, those patients often have little choice but to go to general hospital emergency rooms seeking help. And with a shortage of beds across the region, they sometimes are left there waiting until a bed opens up.

?With the behavioral health system as it exists today, there?s

Dr. Roger Ray

a huge unmet need all across the care continuum. But the flash point for that lately has been in acute care service, especially as it affects general hospital emergency rooms,? said Dr. Roger A. Ray, executive vice president and chief medical officer at Carolinas HealthCare System. ?(It?s) at a crisis point all across the country and particularly the states we serve.?

Before announcing the Davidson hospital last summer, Carolinas HealthCare had been looking for a site for a new behavioral health hospital for several years. CHS cited reductions in beds state-owned facilities and a growth in the need for care in the Charlotte region. The 66 state-permitted beds are being transferred from Broughton Hospital in Morganton.

The Davidson East site was a second choice for the Charlotte-based non-profit CHS after it failed to win approval for the project on land it already owned on N.C. 115 in Huntersville. The Huntersville Town Board in early 2012 voted against rezoning for a site off N.C. 115 at Verhoeff Drive.

The Davidson project didn?t require any additional zoning approvals. Davidson?s Town Board in September 2011 rezoned the property to allow for what planners called ?flex campus? development, which town officials said could include a health care facility.

The Huntersville site, which is surrounded by a neighborhood of single-family homes, faced loud opposition from neighbors before it was rejected. The Davidson site has few homes nearby, though a group of residents did fight the plan, at one point threatening to sue to halt the plans. That suit never materialized.

Town and CHS leaders and mental health advocates all say the hospital is an important addition, from both an economic development and a health-care perspective.

We talked to Dr. Ray this week about the hospital, its services and mental health care.

Q. What need will the new hospital meet?

RAY: ?With the behavioral health system as it exists today, there?s a huge unmet need all across the care continuum. But the flash point for that lately has been in acute care service, especially as it affects general hospital emergency rooms, which is at a crisis point all across the country and particularly the states we serve.

North Carolina?s legislature has asked for a study to contemplate some more in-patient facilities for a five-county area that includes Mecklenburg. The study suggests that need will continue to exist. So right now it?s about trying to meet the need. And there is a need for an acute inpatient site. (Patients) are being poorly served when all the beds are full and emergency rooms are full.

CHS is stepping up to our mission to provide care and making a pretty big commitment, at a time when others in the nation and Southeast are not making commitments. It is not all that we?re doing in behavioral health. We?re also beefing up our ambulatory (outpatient) presence, and treat patients earlier, at times in their illnesses when a hospital can be avoided.

Q. What kinds of services will be offered in Davidson?

RAY: Well there?s no emergency room there. These will be patients that are identified elsewhere, whether it be in a physician?s office, or in another acute-care hospital or an emergency room, who need and would be appropriate for an inpatient stay. We?ll be licensed for adults.

We?re seeing them typically because of an acute deterioration in a behavioral health need. A secure and restorative environment is what we?re shooting for creating there. The length of stay would typically be a week or less, as compared to long stays. That would not typically be what we?d do.

Hopefully over time, if we?re better at managing care across the continuum, the stay would be a few days only.

Q. What do patients in crisis do right now?

RAY: They typically seek out an emergency facility, usually in a general community hospital, because the only purely behavioral health emergency room (in this area) is at CHC Randolph. Physicians there assess you, and maybe begin treatment of some sort. If you need an in-patient stay, they begin looking for a bed, at Randolph or another hospital that has behavioral health, or in a state hospital. Sometimes that takes a day, sometimes that takes days and days. You might be left in the emergency room.

Q. The plans calls for a second building ? what?s that?

RAY: The second building will have a few thousand square feet (10,000 square feet) of a clinic-setting. That will be to see patients who don?t need to go into the hospital, or after they?ve been in the hospital.

Q. Say a little bit about your approach to care

RAY: It will be team-based, and that?s a modern concept. We?ll have a number of treatment professionals ? physicians, advanced clinical practitioners, like nurse practitioners, psychologists, social workers ? the total mix of team members at that facility. We?re projecting about 155 people working there.

A second concept is we want it to be part of the overall integrated behavioral health service, which goes all the way from screening to early treatment to acute care and after. Part of that role is for it not to be stand-alone treatment, but treatment that is connected to treatment after you no longer need acute care.

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The Oldest Word for Dawn

The poetry of Brad Leithauser offers an adept blend of individual and social drama.

By Elizabeth Lund / April 12, 2013

The Oldest Word for Dawn By Brad Leithauser Knopf 234 pp.

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The Oldest Word for Dawn: New and Selected Poems is a wonderful introduction to ? or means of getting reacquainted with ? the work of Brad Leithauser, whose poetry and fiction have delighted readers for years. The compilation begins with new poems that lovingly portray Leithauser's late mother, who watched the world change in dizzying ways during her more than 80 years.

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Those pages demonstrate Leithauser?s ability to create clear, compelling narratives that satisfy readers on multiple levels. As the book continues, diving into older work, the writing shifts from looser, longer pieces to tighter, more imagistic poems and back again. Some of the most memorable writing is compact and polished, as in these lines about the planet Mercury from ?11 Astronomical Riddles?: ?I huddle closest to the heat/ Yet my back is cold/ As ice. I am the most fleet,/ If the least bold.? Throughout the book, music and formal control go hand in hand, resulting in smooth poems that are inviting and thoughtful.

Leithauser knows how and when to use rhyme and rhythm, and he adeptly tackles both personal stories and larger concerns: history, math, philosophy. His signature poems, such as ?Emigrant?s Story,? blend individual and social dramas with tenderness and precision. In ?1944: Purple Heart,? Leithauser captures the mood of a generation with the description of a wounded GI who is supposed to focus on healing but instead thinks ?Rest? He has to show his girl ?a time.? ?

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