Efforts to integrate music into healthcare systems and wellness practices are accelerating
but the biological foundations supporting these initiatives remain underappreciated. As a …

Is the singing voice processed distinctively in the human brain? In this Perspective, we
discuss what might distinguish song processing from speech processing in light of recent …

Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, is
universal to music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm …

Music is an interactive technology associated with religious and communal activities and
was suggested to have evolved as a participatory activity supporting social bonding. In post …

Humans exhibit what appears to be a unique vocal property: octave equivalence, whereby
adult male voices are, on average, an octave lower in pitch than those of adult females and …

Speech and music are two fundamental modes of human communication. Lateralisation of
key processes underlying their perception has been related both to the distinct sensitivity to …

One of the most important auditory categorization tasks a listener faces is determining a
sound's domain, a process which is a prerequisite for successful within-domain …

Music and language are both forms of communication universally observed across human
societies, prompting researchers to investigate why and how they evolved. Such research …

Global music diversity is a popular topic for both scientific and humanities researchers, but
often for different reasons. Scientific research typically focuses on the generalities through …

Vocal imitation plays a critical function in the development and use of both language and
music. Previous studies have reported more accurate imitation for sung pitch than spoken …