Music
Background music impacts employees, study
Around 13.5 million workers, mainly in service jobs, spend long hours exposed to background music designed for customers, not employees. A study by Ohio...
Bouncing key to dance synchronization
Rome, August 6, 2024 – New research from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) reveals that bouncing helps people sync at concerts, clubs, or...
How brains distinguish between music and speech
Auditory system uses amplitude modulation to differentiate between music and speech.
Infants hear more speech than music at home
Comparison of speech and music input for infants over two years .
Vibrating gloves help stroke patients in muscle spasm recovery
Vibrotactile stimulation studied for post-stroke spasticity relief.
Playing an instrument improves brain health in older age
Analyzing cognitive development in UK aging cohort via musical instruments.
Scientists reveal how sense of smell alters our perception of colors
Color perception is affected by odors, study finds.
Boosting cognitive arousal and performance with everyday pleasure
Using wearable devices to control how your brain thinks by listening, tasting, and smelling.
Not getting enough sleep, whether in Seattle or anywhere else, can harm heart
Cardiovascular disease indicators and sleep irregularity: A Multi-Ethnic Study.
The soothing power of improvisational music for epilepsy patients
Epilepsy monitoring unit's calming music pilot study during COVID-19.
The robotic glove helps stroke patients play the piano again
Smart hand exoskeleton helps people learn to play musical instruments.
Joyful music could be a game-changer for virtual reality headaches
Listening to music could reduce the dizziness, nausea, and headaches virtual reality users might experience.
Music can help prevent cognitive decline
The positive impacts of musical activities to counteract brain aging.
Prenatal music exposure enhances the baby’s brain’s ability to encode speech sounds
Listening to music during pregnancy benefits the baby’s brain’s ability to encode speech sounds.
Analysis of more than 200,000 Spotify tracks reveals commonalities and diversity in sleep music
Study has identified several characteristics typical of music associated with sleep
Playing the piano boosts brain processing power
A randomised control trial shows the positive effects learning to play music has on cognitive abilities.
Music students exhibited certain kinds of brain activity more strongly than other students
Mapping the musical mind.
Analyzing music outside the traditional canon
Bringing computational music analysis beyond the traditional canon.
Music triggers individual effects on the heart
People respond and perceive music differently. It can also vary significantly concerning the rhythm. Similarly, music has different impacts on the individual brain, suggest...
High-tech graphene-based earphones for high-fidelity audio lovers
To create an acoustic product platform of 100% graphene micro transducers, proprietary electronics, and contextually aware voice operation software, a California-based company called GraphAudio...
How the brain separates speech from the song?
Speech and music are human universals, and people around the world often blend them into vocal songs. This entwinement of the speech and music...
Fermentophone: New musical instrument made of fermented fruits
Getting the band of microbes back together.
Music may offer an alternative to preoperative drug routinely used to calm nerves
Scientists wanted to find out if it might offer a suitable alternative to midazolam.