This is your brain on Bach

[George K]

Old video of Oliver Sachs undergoing a PET scan listening to Bach vs. Beethoven.

Link to video

[mark]

Interesting. In a limited sort of way. It would be cool to do a large participant study using a wider selection of composers, genres, etc.

[Copper]

Is he reacting to the composer or maybe to familiarity?

There could be a lot of reasons, it doesn't seem like just Bach v Beethoven