The neuroscience of music and music-based interventions (MBIs) is a fascinating but
challenging research field. While music is a ubiquitous component of every human society …

Studies in the neuroscience of music gained momentum in the 1990s as an integrated part
of the well-controlled experimental research tradition. However, during the past two …

Music is powerful in conveying emotions and triggering affective brain mechanisms.
Affective brain responses in previous studies were however rather inconsistent, potentially …

Spurred by recent advances in digital technologies, virtual concerts have become
established modes for event attendance and represent a rapidly growing segment of the …

Despite a long history of researchers who combine phenomenology with qualitative or
quantitative methods, there are only few examples of working with a phenomenological …

The popularity of virtual concerts increased as a result of the social distancing requirements
of the coronavirus pandemic. We aimed to examine how the characteristics of virtual …

Performing and listening to music occurs in specific situations, requiring specific media.
Empirical research on music listening and appreciation, however, tends to overlook the …

While there is an increasing shift in cognitive science to study perception of naturalistic
stimuli, this study extends this goal to naturalistic contexts by assessing physiological …

Background Although music interventions on postoperative pain (POP) have positive effects,
limited research has focused on systematic reviews and meta‐analyses of its efficacy for …

Music has the capacity to elicit strong positive feelings in humans by activating the brain's
reward system. Because group emotional dynamics is a central concern of social …