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A study by MIT researchers illustrates how the brain responds to music, writes Jill Suttie for The Huffington Post.  "You want to know what is it about bluegrass music that makes it sound like bluegrass? We think that finding this neural population will help us to answer that question going forward,” explains postdoc Sam Norman-Haignere. 

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