How sonatas help scientists understand the brain

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Researchers think the music of Johann Sebastian Bach could help them spot dementia earlier in patients. It's all to do with measuring brain activity when people hear familiar melodies - and how it changes as we get older. So what is it about music that makes it so useful for neuroscience? For this episode of our 5 Minutes On podcast, music journalist Will Chalk speaks to Dr Leonardo Bonetti, from the University of Oxford, to find out.