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·August 10, 2021·4 min read

What a Song Reveals About Vocal Imitation Deficits for Autistic Individuals

Autistic children and adults are better at holding and imitating relative pitch than they are with absolute pitch across both speech and song.

This is a cartoon of a woman listening to music

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·August 9, 2021·3 min read

Coping With COVID-19 Stress Through Music

Many people listen to music to alleviate stress in their lives, this is especially true in the time of COVID. A new study reports people who experienced an increase in negative emotion during lockdown listened to music to relieve feelings of depression, stress, and fear. Those with a more positive state of mind turned to music as a replacement for social interaction.

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·August 3, 2021·3 min read

Simlish Is Less Distracting Than English in Background Music During a Conversation

Background music in Simlish, an unintelligible language used in the popular game The Sims, allow people to better listen to and understand each other than when the songs are in English, researchers say.

This shows school children looking at sheet music on an overhead projector

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·August 2, 2021·3 min read

Learning Foreign Languages Can Affect the Processing of Music in the Brain

Learning a new language can affect musical processing in children, researchers report. Findings support the theory that musical and linguistic functions are closely linked in the developing brain.

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·August 2, 2021·3 min read

Imagined Music and Silence Trigger Similar Brain Activity

EEG study reveals when we imagine a song, similar brain activity occurs as when we experience moments of silence in music.

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·July 22, 2021·4 min read

When Drums Talk – What Happens When the Speech and the Music Sound Similar?

Listeners rely on a number of acoustic features to make the distinction between drum music and drum "speech".

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·July 9, 2021·3 min read

Vocal Music Boosts the Recovery of Language Functions After Stroke

Stroke survivors who listened to vocal music had improved recovery of structural connectivity of language networks in the left frontal lobe compared to those who listened to audiobooks.

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·July 9, 2021·3 min read

Hitting the Right Note: Even Professional Singers Tend to Overestimate the Accuracy of Their Own Performance

Professional singers are surprisingly inaccurate when rating their own pitch accuracy. Most tend to overestimate their performance, especially if they are more accomplished musicians.