If you regularly play Rock Band, congratulations. You likely have better music perception skills than the average non-gamer. It’s not that surprising, considering that Rock Band requires you to match ...

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Although listening to music is common in all societies, the biological determinants of listening to music are largely unknown. According to a new study, listening to classical music enhanced the ...

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 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 ...

“You do find many people studying [the] neuroscience of music are musicians, and I’m no different,” he says. Auditory physiologist Nelson Kiang in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at Harvard/MIT helped ...

Editor’s note: Every year, hundreds of undergraduates at the University of Delaware pursue research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, especially during the summer months. Such experiences ...

From a general perspective, harmony in music is the balance of the proportions between the different parts of a whole, which causes a feeling of pleasure. "When we listen to music, each sound we hear ...