Music has cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral and motor benefits for people with
neurological disorders such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease (PD) and Autism …

Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable
experience, moving us both physically and emotionally—and learning to play music shapes …

Music is core to human experience, yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music
perception remain unknown. We analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography …

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate neural processes when
music gains reward value the first time it is heard. The degree of activity in the mesolimbic …

A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective
processes underlying interactions with music. The expressive moment is that point in time …

Although music is ubiquitous in human societies, there are some people for whom music
holds no reward value despite normal perceptual ability and preserved reward-related …

Music is often studied as a cognitive domain alongside language. The emotional aspects of
music have also been shown to be important, but views on their nature diverge. For …

Several studies comparing adult musicians and nonmusicians have shown that music
training is associated with structural brain differences. It is not been established, however …

Music is a highly complex and versatile stimulus for the brain that engages many temporal,
frontal, parietal, cerebellar, and subcortical areas involved in auditory, cognitive, emotional …

BackgroundThere is a recognised need for the identification of factors that might be
protective against the development of depression in older adults. Over the past decade …