In a million years, under the pressure of natural selection, hominins have acquired the
abilities for vocal learning, music, and language. Music is a relevant human activity, highly …

Movies, audio stories, and virtual reality are increasingly used as stimuli for functional brain
imaging. Such naturalistic paradigms are in sharp contrast to the tradition of experimental …

Musical imagery is the voluntary internal hearing of music in the mind without the need for
physical action or external stimulation. Numerous studies have already revealed brain areas …

The angular gyrus (AG) is a hub of several networks that are involved in various functions,
including attention, self-processing, semantic information processing, emotion regulation …

During music listening, humans routinely acquire the regularities of the acoustic sequences
and use them to anticipate and interpret the ongoing melody. Specifically, in line with this …

During complex tasks, patterns of functional connectivity differ from those in the resting state.
However, what accounts for such differences remains unclear. Brain activity during a task …

Joint music performance requires flexible sensorimotor coordination between self and other.
Cognitive and sensory parameters of joint action—such as shared knowledge or temporal …

While the behavior of “being musically creative”—improvising, composing, songwriting, etc.—
is undoubtedly a complex and highly variable one, recent neuroscientific investigation has …

We investigated “musical effort” with an internationally renowned, classical, pianist while
playing, listening, and imagining music. We used pupillometry as an objective measure of …

Abstract The incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is constantly increasing, in which
6 of 1000 ASD children are from Asia. Music therapy as a develo** alternative is believed …