Robert Bilder, Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Professor of Psychiatry at the Semel Institute, was featured in a Sept. 27 live streaming online channel on Facebooklive, where he discussed social media, creative cognition, and the biology of creativity.

TOPANGA FILM FESTIVAL - SALON DISCUSSION ON CREATIVE COGNITION AND CINEMA

Writers – Getting to the Core

http://www.topangafilmfestival.com/salon-discussions

Friday – July 29th 3pm – Church of Cinema

This salon discussion explores the human urge toward story, and how to go about unlocking the stories that need to be told. The panelists will offer various perspectives on the creative process from the very inception of our story ideas through their cultivation and development into a form that can be shared with others. As we peel away the layers to reveal the very essence of our urges, a picture emerges of the centrality of narrative in our lives: face-to-face, online, and everywhere in between.

In June 2009, newspapers reported that archaeologists in Germany had discovered a 35,000-year-old flute made of bird bone. It represented, one paper said, "the earliest known flowering of music-making in Stone Age culture." And we have been tapping our toes, humming along, singing and dancing ever since. The power of music affects all of us and has long appealed to our emotions.

Music has a universal ability to tap into our deepest emotions. Unfortunately, for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), understanding emotions is a very difficult task. Can music help them?

Thanks to funding from the GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program, researchers at UCLA are about to find out.