Research on how human brains perceive music has traditionally only focused on Western music and the people who listen to it. But researchers are gradually realizing that this needs to change and that ...

As anyone who has ever heard “their song” can attest, the right music has the power to make you move. Now, healthcare providers are trying to harness this power to help patients with a disabling ...

Researchers at the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University have found that music can enter our consciousness through bottom-up processing. Nina Kraus is a neuroscientist and ...

Creativity is notoriously difficult to study as it unfolds, but musical improvisation offers a rare chance to watch spontaneous idea-generation in action.

MedRhythms is a Portland-based digital health startup that uses sensors, software and music to help restore nervous system functioning and walking ability. The founders wanted to find a way to improve ...

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps ...

Emmeline Edwards (left) is the Director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH; MD, USA). She is also the co-chair of the ...

The effect of music on the mind is a subject for constant fascination. Neuroscience has “discovered” the effects of older music on people’s minds and it’s a big deal. Actually, you didn’t discover it.

Johnny Cash's Hurt hits way different in A Major, as much so as Ring of Fire in G Minor. The dissonance in tone between the chords is, ahem, a minor one: simply the third note lowered to a flat. But ...

A study published in Nature Neuroscience highlights brain activity that happens when a sleeping person hears music. A team of UCLA researchers examined brain activity in the cerebral cortex of ...

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