Music perception and training constitute a multidisciplinary field that explores the intricate interplay between acoustic signals, neural processing and experiential learning. At its core, the study ...

Research on how human brains perceive music has traditionally only focused on Western music and the people who listen to it. But researchers are gradually realizing that this needs to change and that ...

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In a recent article published in PLOS Biology, researchers reconstructed a piece of music from neural recordings using computer modeling as they investigated the spatial neural dynamics underpinning ...

This article was originally featured in MIT Press. In 2009, my research group found that newborns possess the ability to discern a regular pulse–the beat–in music. It’s a skill that might seem trivial ...

The Society for Music Perception and Cognition held its first in-person meeting in three years in Portland, Oregon, on August 4 through 7. Here are a few of the most intriguing findings I learned at ...

The human brain appears biased toward hearing and producing rhythms with simple integer ratios, but the favored ratios can vary greatly between different societies, according to a 15-country study.

The haunting melodies that bring tears to our eyes and the disorganized thoughts that characterize psychosis might seem worlds apart. Yet emerging research suggests these disparate experiences may ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A Santa Barbara researcher is embarking on an unusual project to prove how music can impact our perception of flavor. In a world where sound makes waves, it also ignites the ...

Researchers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, have demonstrated that recognizable versions of classic Pink Floyd rock music can be reconstructed just from the brain activity that was ...