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The Inforium

Improving Brain Function Using Music Created by Robots (Ep. 88)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Work Smart, Career, Class, Productivity, Lifehacking, Learning, Business, College, Education, Lifestyle Design, Personal Branding, 101, University

4.8998 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Should you study with music or not? I get this question a lot, so today I'm talking with some of the most qualified people possible - the founders of Brain.fm, a startup that creates AI-generated music to improve focus, energy - and even sleep. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Try out Brain.fm (there's a monthly fee, but you can do 7 sessions for free before needing to pay) Brain.fm's collection of research on music and brain performance Huge reddit thread with people's thoughts on Brain.fm (plus a ton of questions answered by Adam) Neural oscillation (brain waves) Chrono Cross soundtrack Xenoblade Chronicles X soundtrack DDR music Beatmania IIDX music Study on slow-wave sleep and memory Sleep headphone mask The War of Art Ancillary Justice How to Win Friends and Influence People Think and Grow Rich Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0

Hey what's up everybody and welcome to the College info geek

0:41.0

podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student.

0:46.0

And in today's episode I'm talking with two guys, Adam Hewitt and Janette Kalmotti.

0:50.0

Now they are the co-founder, two of the co-founder, they're actually three in total I believe, of a site called brain.

0:56.0

And brain.FM is a web app that generates artificially intelligent music that's supposed to help you focus and study better.

1:05.4

And I found this a few weeks ago on a site called Product Hunt that posts lots of new products

1:09.6

and apps that come out all the time, and I was interested in it because I'm always looking for new study music and study music that is specifically designed to help you study better is definitely going to be interesting to me.

1:21.0

And what I found really interesting about the site is they actually have

1:23.0

research that they've conducted with one of their co-founders who is a

1:26.0

neuroscientist on people to see whether their music helps people study better

1:31.8

than silence or other music and they've like hooked people up to EEG machines and measured brain wave responses and all these cool things

1:38.8

So I thought that this was just like a really cool topic to dive into. I'm really

1:43.2

interested in the intersection between brain science and and music and how to

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