Solos Twice as Common in Sad Songs
Want to compose a sad song? Include a solo. Researchers report orchestral passages with characteristics that evoke sadness are twice as likely to feature a solo.... Read More...
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Training in Musical Improvisation May Teach Your Brain to Think Differently
Researchers say those who can improvise are better musicians than those who have limited improvisational experience. Additionally, the brains of those trained to improvise show different patters of electrical activity than non-improvising players.... Read More...
How Music Lessons Can Improve Language Skills
A new study reports children who receive musical training have better word discrimination than other kindergarteners who had not undertaken music lessons. ... Read More...
Music Playschool Enhances Children’s Linguistic Skills
Incorporating musical lessons into preschool classes can significantly help to improve children's linguistic skills, researchers report.... Read More...
Higher Empathy People Process Music Differently in the Brain
Researchers report people with higher empathy process music with greater involvement in the brain's reward system and areas of the brain associated with social information processing.... Read More...
Learning Music or Speaking Another Language Leads to More Efficient Brain
According to researchers, bilingual people and trained musicians utilize fewer resources in their brains while completing working memory tasks. As their brains require less effort to perform tasks, researchers speculate this could protect them from the onset of cognitive decline.... Read More...
Crocodiles Listen to Classical Music in MRI Scanner
Exposing crocodiles to a variety of auditory and visual stimuli while in an MRI, researchers discover their brain processing patterns resemble that of other mammals and birds. The researchers speculate the fundamental mechanisms of sensory processing were formed at an early evolutionary stage.... Read More...
To Improve Future Relationship With Your Kids, Turn Up the Music
A new study reports music can have a positive impact on the parent child relationship. Researchers discovered people who had shared musical experiences with their parents during childhood and adolescence had better relationships with their moms and dads as they entered adulthood.... Read More...
How Pleasure Affects Our Brains
A new article looks at the neuroscience of pleasure and considers why, in the pursuit of pleasure, we embark in some actions which are detrimental to our well being.... Read More...
Music Activates Regions of the Brain Spared by Alzheimer’s
A new study reports Alzheimer's disease does not appear to affect the salience network. Researchers found, when listening to music, the salience network along with other networks, show higher functional connectivity in Alzheimer's patients. ... Read More...
Creativity is a State of Mind and Can be Trained
Trained pianists have higher levels of brain wave synchronization when improvising pieces of music, a new study reveals.... Read More...
Overcoming Bias About Music Takes Work
Researchers reveal telling people whether a musician in a professional or student can change the way the brain responds to the music they are playing. ... Read More...