In February, PLOS Biology published a study that found newborns could predict rhythmic patterns of music. While they were shown to recognize rhythms, they ...

The superficial amygdala is involved in the processing of basic socio-affective information, including music. Music-evoked pleasure is associated with activity of the dopaminergic mesolimbic reward ...

Researchers, studying which parts of the brain are responsible for processing elements of music, played a Pink Floyd song to a group of patients with electrodes implanted in their brains. Researchers ...

Finnish and Danish researchers have developed a new method that performs decoding, or brain-reading, during continuous listening to real music. Based on recorded brain responses, the method predicts ...

Research has shown that a music-related hobby boosts language skills and affects the processing of speech in the brain. According to a new study, the reverse also happens – learning foreign languages ...

Music training is good for the brain. Nina Kraus, a prominent brain researcher at Northwestern University, says that "music training leads to changes throughout the auditory system that prime ...