Using brain scans, scientists are trying to find how great freestyle rappers drop dope lines. Discovery News reports on a study conducted by researchers the voice, speech and language branch of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Here’s the paper: “Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap.” (via Clive Thompson; image photoshop mine from original study)
Neuroscience of the human brain while freestyle rapping
