In his talk, Niels Christian challenges our understanding of musical skills as something reserved to the so-called ‘musical geniuses’, and argues that musical expertise is actually within reach for all of us. Largely fuelled by coffee and curiosity, Niels Christian is a cognitive music theorist, classical pianist, and neuroscientist who recently completed his PhD. The aim of his study is to investigate how a year-long, intensive training fundamentally changes the way that sounds are processed in the brains of expert musicians dedicating their lives and souls to classical music or jazz. To achieve this goal he used psychological experiments, computational modelling, and fancy neuroimaging. The public defense of his research spurred widespread coverage in national and regional media. In addition to his doctorate, Niels Christian holds colorful diplomas collected on his numerous academic detours home and abroad, including a Bachelor in piano performance and Master’s degree in music theory and the cognitive neuroscience of music. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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