One especially important feature of metrical music is that it contains periodicities that
listeners' bodily rhythms can adapt to. Recent psychological frameworks have introduced the …

The recent surge of interest towards the paradoxical pleasure produced by sad music has
generated a handful of theories and an array of empirical explorations on the topic …

The field of neuroaesthetics has gained in popularity in recent years but also attracted
criticism from the perspectives both of the humanities and the sciences. In an effort to …

The importance of music in our daily life has given rise to an increased number of studies
addressing the brain regions involved in its appreciation. Some of these studies controlled …

Although music is ubiquitous in human societies, there are some people for whom music
holds no reward value despite normal perceptual ability and preserved reward-related …

Enjoying music reliably ranks among life's greatest pleasures. Like many hedonic
experiences, it engages several reward-related brain areas, with activity in the nucleus …

Why do we enjoy listening to music that makes us sad? This question has puzzled music
psychologists for decades, but the paradox of “pleasurable sadness” remains to be solved …

Although music is known to be a part of everyday life and a resource for mood and emotion
management, everyday life has changed significantly for many due to the global coronavirus …

Music is often studied as a cognitive domain alongside language. The emotional aspects of
music have also been shown to be important, but views on their nature diverge. For …

Music therapists use guided affect regulation in the treatment of mood disorders. However,
self-directed uses of music in affect regulation are not fully understood. Some uses of music …