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How well can you hear shapes? Test your musical - visual symbolic intelligence!

AMVI
Many creative musicians “hear” shapes when they listen to music. I’ve labeled the ability to do this logically as associative musical visual intelligence, or “amvi” for short. This flash-based test attempts to quantify one’s ability to represent musical phrases as shapes. It’s a challenging test to complete successfully, but the logic throughout the test is consistent. For instance, here are two example answer choices for a musical phrase:

Example Symbol

The actual musical phrase consists of two short repeated elements: first played by one instrument (black), then a second instrument (red). There is also a third instrument whose pitch direction is going up throughout the phrase (blue arrow). Therefore, the symbol on the right would be correct. If the pitch direction of the third instrument were downwards, then the symbol on the left would be correct.
Give it a try yourself, and of course I welcome your feedback.

You can find the test here. 

Lesion Localizer: Integrating Clinical Neurology with a Complete MRI Atlas

Lesion Localizer

Lesion Localizer is a flash-based interactive environment to integrate MRI anatomy with the clinical presentation of classic neurological syndromes. At the heart of the project is an MRI atlas in which structures are highlighted and labeled as the mouse over the image. The MRI images can be freely explored in all three orthogonal planes (axial, sagittal, and coronal). This tool allows one to become familiar with neuroanatomy on MRI, and realize the importance of anatomical localization in clinical thinking. It is designed to supplement learning neurology for second, third, and fourth year medical students, but can be useful for both neurology and radiology residents as well. Lesion localizer was created with Amar Dhand and Dr. Gillian Lieberman. You can find Lesion Localizer here.

Explore head and neck anatomy with a fully-labelled mouseover atlas

Head CT

This atlas was created during my radiology rotation. I think it is unique among the many head CT atlases out there, as regions are highlighted as you mouse over them. I was frustrated with the design of most atlases, which used many small lines to point to structures. With this atlas, you simply point to the structure in question: the entire structure visible is highlighted, and the name of the structure is given at the bottom.

You can find the head CT atlas here.