Using a cappella to explain speech and music specialization
Using Cappella recordings, researchers discover humans have developed complementary neural systems in each hemisphere for auditory stimuli.... Read More...
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Sheet Music May Be an Effective Guide For Understanding Human Brain Activity
Researchers are looking to transcribe the brain's complex dynamics into new data models that can help better the understanding of the human brain and cognition.... Read More...
Babies mimic songs
Children as young as 15 months can repeat simple melodies they hear hours after exposure to the tune.... Read More...
Sound of music: How melodic alarms could reduce morning grogginess
Waking to melodic tunes from your alarm clock helps reduce sleep inertia.... Read More...
High-tempo music may make exercise easier and more beneficial
High-tempo music may increase the benefits of exercise and reduce perceived effort, particularly if listened to during endurance training. ... Read More...
What people who don’t like music might tell us about social interaction
Musical anhedonia, a neurological condition where people don't enjoy music, affects 5% of the population. Researchers are exploring if this same condition could also be what impairs social bonding for some people on the autism spectrum.... Read More...
Music helps researchers find link between prediction and pleasure
Exposing subjects to music composed in an unfamiliar scale, researchers test whether reward can be derived solely from newly formed predictions.... Read More...
The way you dance is unique, and computers can tell it’s you
While machine learning technology is not too accurate at distinguishing between dance styles, when it comes to recognizing the personal style of dancers, it is 97% effective at determining who is who.... Read More...
Ooh là là! Music evokes 13 key emotions. Scientists have mapped them
Researchers discover how people from the US and China respond to different genres of music and translate the data into an interactive audio map. Findings suggest there are 13 overall categories of experience preserved across cultures that correspond with specific feelings.... Read More...
How playing the drums changes the brain
Drummers have higher microstructural diffusion in the corpus callosum, an area of the brain that connects the two hemispheres and which plays a critical role in motor planning.... Read More...
The human brain is prepared to follow the rhythm of a song or of a dance
Regardless of musical training, a person's brain synchronizes with the rhythm of music, but musicians' brain responses are much stronger and more resistant to distraction.... Read More...
United in musical diversity
There are universal properties of music that reflect deeper commonalities in human cognition.... Read More...