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·September 12, 2020·3 min read

Is the “Mozart Effect” Real? New Analysis Indicates That Music Can Help Epilepsy

Listening to Mozart can reduce the frequency of seizures in those with epilepsy. Exposure to the music of Mozart daily not only significantly reduces seizure frequency, but it also reduces abnormal brain activity associated with epilepsy.

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·September 2, 2020·4 min read

Keeping the Beat – It’s All in Your Brain

Study identified the neural markers of beat synchronization in the brain and sheds light on how auditory perception and motor processes work together.

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·July 29, 2020·3 min read

Music Training May Not Make Children Smarter After All

Musical training may be beneficial for improving social skills and self-esteem in children, but there is little evidence to suggest learning music improves academic performance.

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·July 20, 2020·5 min read

Music on the Brain

Trained musicians exhibited an increased ability to predict rhythmic patterns over non-musicians, with more subtle differences between those trained in Japanese or Western classical music styles.

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·June 10, 2020·4 min read

Mozart may reduce seizure frequency in people with epilepsy

Listening to Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448" daily may reduce seizure activity for those with epilepsy.

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·June 4, 2020·4 min read

Some infants can identify differences in musical tones at six months

Approximately 30% of six-month-old babies can discriminate between differences in musical tones.

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·May 3, 2020·4 min read

Lockdown singing: the science of why music helps us connect in isolation

Researchers explore how and why music is helping to keep us all connected during the coronavirus lockdown.

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·April 7, 2020·6 min read

Students who listened to Beethoven during lectures and sleep performed better on tests

Listening to classical music during a lecture and again as you sleep can help improve test performance.

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·March 6, 2020·4 min read

Music intervention and mindfulness reduces the effect of mental fatigue

On-the-spot binaural beats and daily mindfulness training can help reduce the effects of mental fatigue.

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·February 27, 2020·3 min read

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.

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·February 25, 2020·2 min read

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.