Hearing and Harmony brings together jazz music and science as we celebrate the way that music affects our brains and bodies. Each month we explore a different topic with a guest scientist from Columbia University, combined with music from New York based and inaugural Zuckerman Institute Jazz Artist-in-Residence pianist Helen Sung.

Join us to listen and move with the music, and maybe learn something new!

June’s guest scientist is Ashlea Morgan, PhD Candidate in the Neurobiology & Behavior program at Columbia University. Ashlea is an expert in the neuroscience of serotonin and how this chemical signal plays a role in our emotions.

Hearing Harmony is a collaboration between the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute.