Chills are a psychophysiological response that can be experienced when listening to music.
They have been of particular interest in scientific research on music because of their …

The ability to perceive and produce music is a quintessential element of human life, present
in all known cultures. Modern functional neuroimaging has revealed that music listening …

Research on how music influences brain plasticity has gained momentum in recent years.
Considering, however, the nonuniform methodological standards implemented, the findings …

Although music is one of the most important sources of pleasure for many people, there are
considerable individual differences in music reward sensitivity. Behavioral and …

Data analysis requires translating higher level questions and hypotheses into computable
statistical models. We present a mixed-methods study aimed at identifying the steps …

There are pronounced differences in the degree to which individuals experience music-
induced pleasure which are linked to variations in structural connectivity between auditory …

Individual differences in pitch discrimination have been associated with the volume of both
the bilateral Heschl's gyrus and the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). However, most of these …

Sensitivity to reward is a personality trait that predisposes a person to several addictive
behaviors, including the presence of different risky behaviors that facilitates uncontrolled …

During the last decades, a growing body of research on musical pleasure has shed light on
individual differences and mechanisms underlying music reward sensitivity. Music training …

In the speech to song illusion, a spoken phrase begins to sound as if it is being sung after
several repetitions. Castro et al.(2018) used Node Structure Theory (NST; MacKay, 1987), a …