The daily incorporation of music education and instrumental practice within school settings
has been linked to various advantages, such as enhanced language skills and improved …

Inhibition control is an essential executive function during children's development,
underpinning self-regulation and the acquisition of social and language abilities. This …

More than a century ago, Darwin proposed a putative role for music in sexual attraction (ie,
sex appeal), a hypothesis that has recently gained traction in the field of music psychology …

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a noninvasive approach to modulate
brain activity and behavior in humans. Still, how individual resting-state brain dynamics after …

Resting-state fMRI can be used to identify recurrent oscillatory patterns of functional
connectivity within the human brain, also known as dynamic brain states. Alterations in …

Human imagination is generative and creative yet deeply rooted in culture and familiarity.
Recent studies have quantified the effects of culture on stories that are imagined during …

Music training, in all its forms, is known to have an impact on behavior both in childhood and
even in aging. In the delicate life period of transition from childhood to adulthood, music …

Beyond the established effects of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) in
reducing motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease, recent evidence has highlighted the effect …

Music listening is enjoyed across the lifespan and around the world. This has spurred many
theories on the evolutionary purpose of music. The Music for Social Bonding hypothesis …

Listening to music while appreciating its beauty is a common activity in daily life. Only a few
studies have explored the association between such aesthetic processes with brain activity …