Bjorn Merker (also: Björn Merker), Swedish citizen born May 15, 1943, in Tetschen (now Czech Republic), is a neuroscientist and an independent interdisciplinary scholar educated in the USA, now living in southern Sweden.
Merker studied psychology and brain science in the U.S., receiving a B.A. in psychology at Queens College of the City University of New York (1975), and a PhD in psychology and brain science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 for work on midbrain orienting mechanisms. He then worked on oculomotor physiology in cats at UCLA and on the primary visual cortex of macaques at New York University. An interest in comparative behavioral biology led him to study song development and mirror self-recognition in gibbons, and eventually to research on the biological roots and evolutionary background of human music and language. With Nils Wallin and Steven Brown he edited the interdisciplinary volume The Origins of Music. In retirement, he continues active work on theoretical topics that include the analysis of brain macrosystems and their interaction, countercurrent modelling of cortical memory, the subcortical foundations of brain mechanisms of attention and consciousness, and the biological background to human music and language.[1][2][3] Merker's theory is featured at online websites, such as by McGill University.
^Libris, the Royal Library of Sweden search engine, is listing 21 titles as of Jan 21, 2011.
^Cecilia Christner Riad Ensam om att gå i takt, in: Forskning och Framtid, No. 8 (2003) - interview with Björn Merker
^Curriculum Vitae by Björn Merker, 5 pages, June 2010 - read Jan 21, 2011
BjornMerker (also: BjörnMerker), Swedish citizen born May 15, 1943, in Tetschen (now Czech Republic), is a neuroscientist and an independent interdisciplinary...
Merker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: BjörnMerker (born 1943), Swedish neuroscientist Hans-Joachim Merker (1929–2014), German...
Press. Wallin, Nils L./BjörnMerker/Steven Brown (1999): "An Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology." In: Wallin, Nils L./BjörnMerker/Steven Brown (Eds....
Press. Wallin, Nils L./BjörnMerker/Steven Brown (1999): "An Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology." In: Wallin, Nils L./BjörnMerker/Steven Brown (Eds....
awareness of one's internal and external world depends on the brain stem. BjornMerker, an independent neuroscientist in Stockholm, Sweden, argues that the...
cortex to explain why visual space feels the way it does. Neuroscientists BjörnMerker, David Rudrauf and Philosopher Kenneth Williford co-authored a paper...
mother-infant interaction. In The origins of music". In Nils Wallin; BjornMerker; Steven Brown (eds.). The origins of music. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts...
Wallin, Nils, BjornMerker, Steven Brown. (Editors) (2000). The origins of music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Wallin, Nils L.; Merker, Bjorn; Brown, Steven...
Analysis of the Rgveda-Padapatha Sri Satguru Publications, Delhi (1992). BjornMerker, Rig Veda Riddles In Nomad Perspective, Mongolian Studies, Journal of...
Musical Arts The origins of music Nils Lennart Wallin, Steven Brown, BjörnMerker ISBN 0-262-73143-6 retrieved 9 November 2010 Lee Krähenbühl: A Theatre...
Darwin's theory; such scholars include Peter J.B. Slater, Katy Payne, BjörnMerker, Geoffrey Miller and Peter Todd. Music arose alongside language, both...
Musical Universals". In The Origins of Music, edited by Nils L. Wallin, BjörnMerker, and Steven Brown. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Ulrich, Homer, and Paul Pisk...
original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2014. Rüdiger Teichmann, Günter P. Merker (publisher) Helmut Tschöke, Klaus Mollenhauer, Rudolf Maier (ed.): Handbuch...
Motivation and Emotion 31.1 (2007): 5-11. Print. Todd, Neil P. McAngus, and Merker, Bjorn. "Siamang Gibbons Exceed the Saccular Threshold: Intensity of the Song...
Charlotte Torchalla Leo Karakaya Sissi Engel Guido Westermann Katharina Merker Kevin Tschopp Maite Jens Alex Ohles Dominik Graf von Schwerin Franziska...
izročilu Zahodne Slovenije?". Archeo. 30: 67–98. Wallin, Nils Lennart; Merker, Björn; Brown, Steven (2001). The Origins of Music. MIT Press. pp. 237-9. ISBN 0262731436...
Divje Babe, National Museum of Slovenia, 2005 Wallin, Nils Lennart; Merker, Björn; Brown, Steven (2001). The Origins of Music. MIT Press. pp. 237-9. ISBN 0262731436...
Hansen Episode: "Nosedive" 2017 Modus Max Cain 4 episodes 2018 Ransom Stan Merker Episode: "Promised Land" 2020–present The Alienist: Angel of Darkness Bernie...
Retrieved 26 October 2014. ...Ulbricht ist geriebener als der dicke Paul [Merker]. So harte Weisheiten wie den Killbefehl für die Betriebsräte sächselt der...
Nils Lennart; Merker, Björn; Brown, Steven (2000). "An Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology". In Wallin, Nils Lennart; Merker, Björn; Brown, Steven...
"Evolution of human music through sexual selection". In Wallin, Nils L.; Merker, Bjorn; Brown, Steven (eds.). The Origins of Music. MIT Press. pp. 329–360...
Retrieved 22 May 2020. "Starke spricht über seine Zukunftspläne" (in German). Merker. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2020. "Verlängert Starke bei den Bayern...
Evolutionary Theory of Music and Language". In Wallin, Nils L. [in Swedish]; Merker, Björn; Brown, Steven (eds.). The Origins of Music. MIT Press. pp. 165–176...
decisive victory for the Australian Army's 7th Brigade. Allied forces reach Merkers Salt Mines in Thuringia, where gold reserves of the Nazi German Reichsbank...
Meinike, SPD Alfred Meininghaus, SPD Erich Mende, CDU Heinz Menzel, SPD Rolf Merker, FDP (from 20 April 1978) Alois Mertes, CDU Reinhard Metz, CDU Reinhard...
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