Could music hold they key to unlocking brain power in children? Our Brain & Creativity Institute's (Brain & Creativ Inst) 5-yr study with the LA Phil will soon have the answers. bit.ly/2uYg4bc -PCMag

.Assal Habibi Developmental Cognitive Neuroscientist Brain & Creativ Inst addresses the summit on education and music in early childhood; "I consider music and arts as the essentials of childhood education" "music shapes the brain by making new connections" #EdCultureSummit

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Claiming reason as the solution to social ills misses the point that often facts and arguments only improve conditions when they persuade and prompt action. Persuasion requires emotions and feelings as the critical negotiators.

Look out for Antonio Damasio's new book "The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures," which will be available next week. In the meantime, read AdrianWoolfson's review in nature | Brain & Creativ Inst Antonio Damasio ow.ly/QTJV30i9mJh

The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio review – why feelings are the unstoppable force d.gu.com/QDgx4k

Great review of Antonio Damasio's upcoming book, #TheStrangeOrderOfThings, by The Guardian. Had the pleasure to read an early draft last year. x.com/ianchaffee/sta…

We're excited to present this event with the USC Social Work and the Arts Incubator on Feb. 13. "The Brain and Music Through the Lifespan" with Assal Habibi of Brain & Creativ Inst and Alison Balbag of USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology: buff.ly/2E5SdN3

You can get Antonio Damasio's new book today! Antonio Damasio USC USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences @USC_Research #TheStrangeOrderofThings x.com/PantheonBooks/…

You can now get Antonio Damasio's new book in the US and UK! x.com/damasiousc/sta…

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in suffering, so said Nietzsche, but that is hardly all. To live is also to dream of pleasure and to find it.

Read this interview with Antonio Damasio Antonio Damasio on why we feel what we feel x.com/brainpickings/…

Artist Wolfgang Tillmans incorporates science from the BCI into his art x.com/guardian/statu…

Berggruen Prize Jury member and neuroscientist, Antonio Damasio, discusses his new book “The Strange Order Of Things” in new interview with @TheWorldPost . #IdeasMatter Read Here: wapo.st/2F4bzzx

New from our group: Decoding the neural signatures of emotions expressed through sound. Matt Assal Habibi Antonio Damasio ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29501874

Can artificial intelligence capture the nuance of the human mind? Brain & Creativ Inst's Antonio Damasio explains the challenges of recreating the biological mechanisms of feelings in a computer. Via @TheWorldPost ow.ly/4cxs30iOOMH

.The Washington Post's @TheWorldPost interviews Brain & Creativ Inst's Antonio Damasio on his latest book, and looks deeper into the how feelings are at the origin of cultures. ow.ly/YCL630iHvMT

Excited to be hosting Jack Gallant tomorrow at the Brain & Creativ Inst as part of the #bigdata & Human Behavior series @USC_Research

Excited to announce that the Brain & Music Project Brain & Creativ Inst was granted an @NEAart award for our project investigating music training & adolescent development. Our team will continue to work with LA Phil YOLA and @HeartofLA for this great opportunity. #NEASpring18 #musicscience

Paper with Joe Hoover Marlon Mooijman titled, "Moralization in social networks and the emergence of violence during protests" is finally online at Nature Human Behaviour. I am very proud of this work... nature.com/articles/s4156…