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May 16, 2024
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Apr. 4, 2024 Music holds an important place in human culture, and we've all felt the swell of emotion that music can inspire unlike almost anything else. But what is it exactly about music that can bring on such ...
Mar. 4, 2024 A new neuroimaging study reveals how the brain gets to the creative flow ...
Feb. 26, 2024 How does listening to live music affect the emotional center of our brain? A study has found that live performances trigger a stronger emotional response than listening to music from a device. Concerts connect performers with their audience, which ...
Feb. 27, 2024 The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge centuries of Western music theory and encourage greater ...
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Feb. 7, 2024 Three-quarters of people age 50 to 80 say music helps them relieve stress or relax and 65% say it helps their mental health or mood, according to a recent poll. Meanwhile, 60% say they get energized ...
Jan. 30, 2024 A new study has shown that music evokes similar emotions and bodily sensations around the ...
Jan. 29, 2024 Engaging in music throughout your life is associated with better brain health in older age, according to a new study. Scientists working on PROTECT, an online study open to people aged 40 and over, ...
Jan. 23, 2024 A research team announced they have identified the principle by which musical instincts emerge from the human brain without special learning using an artificial neural network ...
Nov. 29, 2023 A new study provides compelling evidence that music preferences can serve as a window into an individual's moral values. It has uncovered an ...
Sep. 7, 2023 Music can take on many forms in cultures across the globe, but researchers have found in a new study that some themes are universally recognizable by ...
Aug. 22, 2023 Researchers study the impact of hearing loss on subjects' enjoyment of different music mixes. They played different music mixes to listeners with and without hearing loss and found that those with ...
Aug. 15, 2023 For those with neurological or developmental disorders compromising speech, brain machine interfaces could help them communicate. But today's interfaces are slow and, from electrodes placed on the ...
July 14, 2023 Study findings suggest that even babies feel the impact of being at a live show, through both musicians' interactions with an audience and the social experience of being in a ...
June 29, 2023 Children do better at maths when music is a key part of their lessons, an analysis of almost 50 years of research on the topic has ...
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May 2, 2023 Listening to music could reduce the dizziness, nausea and headaches virtual reality users might experience after using digital devices, research suggests. Cybersickness -- a type of motion sickness ...
Apr. 26, 2023 Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that ...
Apr. 25, 2023 Scientists carried out an analysis of hundreds of popular song recordings from 1946 to 2020 to determine the lead vocal to accompaniment ratio, or LAR. The study considered the four highest-ranked ...
Apr. 20, 2023 A recent study on Spotify data reveals which types of music are used to help listeners focus while studying and fall ...
Apr. 17, 2023 Normal aging is associated with progressive cognitive decline. But can we train our brain to delay this process? A team has discovered that practicing and listening to music can alter cognitive ...
Mar. 23, 2023 New research has found that constraints in the way our brains work can shape the way people interact when creating music, influencing its ...
Mar. 22, 2023 While listening to a favorite song is a known mood booster, researchers have discovered that music-listening interventions also can make medicines more ...
Mar. 6, 2023 Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music. Reports about alleged symptom-alleviating effects of listening to Mozart's ...
Jan. 18, 2023 A new study demonstrates the benefits of music education to adolescent health and ...
Dec. 29, 2022 Language function and the psychosocial wellbeing of patients and their families can be promoted with singing-based rehabilitation. Group intervention provides opportunities for peer support while ...
Dec. 2, 2022 A randomized control trial led by psychologists shows the positive effects learning to play music for just a few weeks has on cognitive ...
Nov. 11, 2022 Accurately moving to a musical beat was thought to be a skill innately unique to humans. However, new research now shows that rats also have this ability. The optimal tempo for nodding along was ...
Nov. 7, 2022 To find out how different aspects of music influence the body, researchers turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study. By introducing levels of bass over speakers that were too low to ...
Nov. 2, 2022 Engaging infants with a song provides a ready-made means for supporting social development and interaction, according to a new ...
Oct. 27, 2022 Music and arts classes are often first on the chopping block when schools face tight budgets and pressure to achieve high scores on standardized tests. But it's precisely those classes that can ...
Oct. 25, 2022 A new study played song and movie clips both recent and from their adolescence for subjects and asked if they had memories associated with them. Results showed people had more memories associated ...
Sep. 12, 2022 Researcher-clinicians are conducting a multi-site study to establish that music intervention can reduce the likelihood of critically ill, mechanically ventilated older adults in a hospital intensive ...
Aug. 29, 2022 People with dementia often lose their ability to communicate verbally with loved ones. But a new study shows how that gap can be bridged with a new music intervention. Music memories remain in the ...
Aug. 17, 2022 Researchers have developed a method that employs musical tests and a portable instrument for measuring brain activity to detect cognitive decline in old ...
Aug. 3, 2022 A new study explores the use of music-listening to relieve acute pain, finding that people who were given the impression that they had control over the music they heard experienced more pain relief ...
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