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Among the most brilliant of these is 'Berns', created for Lars Siltberg's 'Candleflames Modulated' (2007), exploring frequency extremities with visceral sheets of blackened noise, near infrasonic subbass and vastly unsettling use of psychoacoustic space.

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In his federally-funded, brain-scanning experiment, Dr. Berns originally set out to study how teenagers are influenced by peer pressure and popularity., using music to see how easily they were swayed by other people's opinions.

Songs Stick in Teens' Heads Robert Lee Hotz 2011

And iconoclasts, especially successful ones, have an "affinity for new experiences," according to the Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns.

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And iconoclasts, especially successful ones, have an "affinity for new experiences," according to the Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns.

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Three years after that study was finished, Dr. Berns was watching "American Idol" with his two daughters and realized one of those songs from the study had become a hit.

Songs Stick in Teens' Heads Robert Lee Hotz 2011

“It has unfortunately politicized the issue in ways that are not productive, and it has converted what really are bipartisan issues into partisan ones,” Berns said.

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Berns decides to give producing — and life — one more shot, turning the Disraeli script into a big-budget flick staring mega-action star Bobby Mason (LL Cool J) and eventually falling in love with a studio exec (Ryan).

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Dr. Berns asked the teenagers to rate the songs again, knowing what others thought of the.

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Macy stars as Charlie Berns, a washed-up Hollywood producer about to commit suicide when his nephew (Jason Ritter) shows up with a script for an art house film about 19th Century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

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"The punch line is that brain responses correlated with units sold," said neuro-economist Gregory Berns at Emory's Center for Neuropolicy, who conducted the study with Emory neuroscientist Sara Moore .

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