Research on how the brain processes music is emerging as a rich and stimulating area of
investigation of perception, memory, emotion, and performance. Results emanating from both …

Music offers a unique opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain.
Like language, music exists in all human societies. Like language, music is a complex, rule-…

Music, as language, is a universal human trait. Throughout human history and across all
cultures, people have produced and enjoyed music. Despite its ubiquity, the musical capacity is …

The music faculty is not a monolithic entity that a person either has or does not. Rather, it
comprises a set of neurally isolable processing components, each having the potential to be …

The goal of the present study was to determine whether relaxing music (as compared to
silence) might facilitate recovery from a psychologically stressful task. To this aim, changes in …

It has long been debated which aspects of music perception are universal and which are
developed only after exposure to a specific musical culture [1–5]. Here, we report a …

Multiple disorders of musical abilities can occur after brain damage. Conversely, early brain
anomalies or vast brain injuries may sometimes spare ordinary musical skills in individuals …

Rauscher et al. reported 1 that brief exposure to a Mozart piano sonata produces a temporary
increase in spatial reasoning scores, amounting to the equivalent of 8-9 IQ points on the …

The condition of congenital amusia, commonly known as tone‐deafness, has been described
for more than a century, but has received little empirical attention. In the present study, a …

Past research has shown a superiority of participants with high-functioning autism over
comparison groups in memorizing picture-pitch associations and in detecting pitch changes in …