Finding ties between music, the brain and how we move

January 26, 2012

A unique laboratory at The University of Western Ontario will help researchers study timing, rhythm and movement by understanding how the brain processes music. Researchers anticipate the facility will help them improve broad understandings of music and the human brain, while offering potential clinical treatments for movement and balance disorders like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease, stroke and traumatic brain injury. (More)

No better time for a Dickens celebration

January 26, 2012

Consider it a tale of two centuries. Charles Dickens, one of the 19th Century's most popular writers, found himself abandoned by scholars for nearly 100 years. Considered less important than contemporaries Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, he found himself relegated to a less-serious shelf occupied by serial writers with little to say about a world outside their own. Popularly known for Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, his works were seen as ‘loose baggy monsters’ that championed sick-faced children through two-dimensional characters and frayed plots. (More)

New student legal journal inspires scholarship

January 24, 2012

Western Law's first student-driven law review journal promises to stimulate new thinking on a variety of social and legal issues. (More)