Musical skills and expertise vary greatly in Western societies. Individuals can differ in their
repertoire of musical behaviours as well as in the level of skill they display for any single …

The study of the brain bases for normal musical listening has advanced greatly in the last 30
years. The evidence from basic and clinical neuroscience suggests that listening to music …

Musically naive participants were scanned before and after a period of 15 weeks during
which they were taught to read music and play the keyboard. When participants played …

A number of evolutionary theories assume that music and language have a common origin
as an emotional protolanguage that remains evident in overlapping functions and shared …

This study investigated whether congenital amusia, a neuro-developmental disorder of
musical perception, also has implications for speech intonation processing. In total, 16 British …

Over our evolutionary history, humans have faced the problem of how to create and maintain
social bonds in progressively larger groups compared to those of our primate ancestors. …

The recognition of carbohydrate moieties by cells of the innate immune system is emerging
as an essential element in antifungal immunity, but despite the number and diversity of …

Women face an earnings penalty associated with motherhood but researchers have paid
scant attention to how fatherhood might influence men's long‐term earnings. Using multiple …

A surprising discovery in recent years is that the structure of the adult human brain changes
when a new cognitive or motor skill is learned. This effect is seen as a change in local gray …

Objectives Treatment guidelines for acute pulmonary embolism (PE) recommend risk stratifying
patients to assess PE severity, as those at higher risk should be considered for therapy …