What’s up with hip-hop
Baltimore Sun · January 09, 2013What’s up with hip-hop
Last year, Baltimore-based rapper Kane Mayfield, along with a handful of other MCs from around the country, received an unusual invitation from the National Institute of Health in Bethesda. There, the rappers freestyled while inside an MRI machine, so that their brain activity could be studied during the act of improvisation. The resulting paper, “Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap,” was published in the revered scientific journal Nature in November. The study and more information on the project and Mayfield’s involvement are available at FreestyleScience.com.