In a new study, high ventilation breathwork while listening to music was associated with reports of blissful states and reduced negative emotions, accompanied...
Unsafe listening practices from use of personal listening devices and attendance at loud entertainment venues are common — prevalence estimates 23.81%...
Sound, including music and noise, can relieve pain in humans, but the underlying neural mechanisms are unknown. In new research, scientists from the United...
A lemur species called Indri indri displays, in its coordinated songs, the isochronous and 1:2 rhythm categories seen in human music, showing that such...
In a new study published in May 2021 in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, an interdisciplinary team of researchers made an attempt to describe the specific...
A new study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggests that long-term musical training is associated with robust changes in large-scale brain...
Adding feline-specific music to veterinary offices as environmental enrichment could provide great value to the cat’s welfare in the clinic, to the client’s...
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers examined the feelings evoked by 2,168...
Songs from cultures spanning the globe exhibit universal patterns, according to a new study published in the journal Science.
Music is universal: it exists...
Our brain can recognize familiar music within just 100-300 milliseconds (0.1-0.3 of a second), according to a new study published in the journal Scientific...
According to a series of experiments by Yale University and University of Bath researchers, ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments...
A team of scientists at MIT has developed a system for converting protein sequences into audible sound that resembles musical passages. Then, reversing...
In a series of three experiments, a team of psychologists from Lancaster University, the University of Central Lancashire and the University of Gävle...
A team of researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Exeter, UK, has created the soundtrack of the Martian sunrise captured by NASA’s...
An invention by University of St Andrews researcher Jonathan Kemp allows electric guitar strings to be balanced in sensitivity and feel in a way that has...
A new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has found that listening to ‘happy music’ (i.e. classical music that elicits positive mood and is high...
An international group of researchers has created a hands-free, thought-controlled musical instrument, the encephalophone.
The encephalophone is a musical...
An analysis of song lyrics from 1960 through 2008 reveals that male artists sing about both romantic love and sex more often than female artists. However,...
Billy Ó Foghlú, a Ph.D. student at the Australian National University’s College of Asia-Pacific, has created a replica of an Iron-Age artifact to revive...
While cats ignore human music, they are highly responsive to music written especially for them, says a new study reported in the journal Applied Animal...
