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

Depression is a very common mood disorder, resulting in a loss of social function, reduced
quality of life and increased mortality. Music interventions have been shown to be a potential …

It has been suggested that a key function of music during its development and spread
amongst human populations was its capacity to create and strengthen social bonds amongst …

The field of music and emotion research has grown rapidly and diversified during the last
decade. This has led to a certain degree of confusion and inconsistency between competing …

The idea that music makes you smarter has received considerable attention from scholars
and the media. The present report is the first to test this hypothesis directly with random …

Most research focuses on actual affect, or the affective states that people actually feel. In this
article, I demonstrate the importance and utility of studying ideal affect, or the affective states …

An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis Enables readers to understand the algorithmic
analysis of musical audio signals with AI-driven approaches An Introduction to Audio …

Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to
confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning …

Music is so ubiquitous that it can be easy to overlook the powerful influence it exerts in so
many areas of our lives-from birth, through childhood, to old age. The Social and Applied …

What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music
makers, and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to …