We have read about the fMRI studies with vegetative patients that show certain brain activity in response to certain questions. Now, in a new article forthcoming in Clinical Neurophysiology, Francesco Riganello and Italian colleagues show that music affects the heart rates of vegetative patients in just the same way that it affects the heart rate of healthy patients. "Positive" music slows the heart rate, while "negative" pieces like Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony increased heart rate. Of course, the fact that "automatic" brain functions work does not mean that any higher cognitive ones do too.
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