Music has cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral and motor benefits for people with
neurological disorders such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease (PD) and Autism …

Musical training has recently gained additional interest in education as increasing
neuroscientific research demonstrates its positive effects on brain development …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

Music is core to human experience, yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music
perception remain unknown. We analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography …

Understanding how the brain translates a structured sequence of sounds, such as music,
into a pleasant and rewarding experience is a fascinating question which may be crucial to …

Music has been identified as a strength in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder; however,
there is currently no neuroscientific evidence supporting its benefits. Given its universal …

What happens in our brains when we compose a melody, write a poem, paint a picture, or
choreograph a dance sequence? How is this different from what occurs in the brain when …

Every human culture has some form of music with a beat: a perceived periodic pulse that
structures the perception of musical rhythm and which serves as a framework for …

It is a common experience—and well established experimentally—that music can engage us
emotionally in a compelling manner. The mechanisms underlying these experiences are …

Sadness is generally seen as a negative emotion, a response to distressing and adverse
situations. In an aesthetic context, however, sadness is often associated with some degree …