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·February 13, 2020·4 min read

Babies mimic songs

Children as young as 15 months can repeat simple melodies they hear hours after exposure to the tune.

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·February 3, 2020·3 min read

Sound of music: How melodic alarms could reduce morning grogginess

Waking to melodic tunes from your alarm clock helps reduce sleep inertia.

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·February 2, 2020·4 min read

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.

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·January 18, 2020·4 min read

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.

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·January 18, 2020·2 min read

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.

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·January 17, 2020·3 min read

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.

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·January 6, 2020·5 min read

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.

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·December 9, 2019·3 min read

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.

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·November 26, 2019·3 min read

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.

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·November 24, 2019·3 min read

United in musical diversity

There are universal properties of music that reflect deeper commonalities in human cognition.

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·November 15, 2019·3 min read

Smart people may learn music faster

The strongest predictor of musical skill acquisition is intelligence, followed by musical aptitude.

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·November 7, 2019·4 min read

Enjoyment of pop music classics linked to combination of uncertainty and surprise

Combining neuroimaging data with machine learning, researchers report musical pleasure depends on a dynamic interplay between prospective and retrospective states of expectation.