LiveLab featured around the globe on Daily Planet

Is it a lab in a theatre or a theatre in a lab?

McMaster’s new LiveLab was featured by the Discovery channel’s Daily Planet science news program Jan. 20.

The show, broadcast in 130 countries, included an extensive interview with the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind director Laurel Trainor,

The $8M facility allows researchers to explore how musicians perform together, how rhythm might help an autistic child or a Parkinson’s patient, and how hearing aids might work better in noisy settings – among other endeavours.

“The research applications are almost limitless,” Trainor said when the facility opened last fall. “We can start to ask big research questions like: How do musicians interact with each other? How do they coordinate to play together and how do their brains accomplish that?”

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