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Your brain on silence

MAAC is all about sound and music. But what about their opposite: silence? Silence is a huge variable and intrinsic component of any composer's palette, and now, Duke researchers have found evidence that silence increases cell proliferation in the hippocampus. Here's the story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinecomaford/2022/12/10/your-brain-on-silence/?sh=1cd38f733d88, and here's the research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4087081/.

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