How is music represented in the brain? While neuroimaging has revealed some spatial
segregation between responses to music versus other sounds, little is known about the …

There have been many attempts to discuss the evolutionary origins of music. We review
theories of music origins and take the perspective that music is originally derived from …

Food intake has been shown to be related to several environmental factors including the
presence of music. However, previous findings of the relationship between music and food …

Objective Previous studies suggest that daily music listening can aid stroke recovery, but
little is known about the stimulus‐dependent and neural mechanisms driving this effect …

The origin of the Western preference for consonance remains unresolved, with some
suggesting that the preference is innate. In Experiments 1 and 2 of the present study, 6 …

Parents commonly vocalize to infants to mitigate their distress, especially when holding them
is not possible. Here we examined the relative efficacy of parents' speech and singing …

Previous research reveals that vocal melodies are remembered better than instrumental
renditions. Here we explored the possibility that the voice, as a highly salient stimulus, elicits …

With over 560 citations reported on Google Scholar by April 2018, a publication by Juslin
and Gabrielsson (1996) presented evidence supporting performers' abilities to …

Singing and Wellbeing provides evidence that the benefits of a melodious voice go far
beyond pleasure, and confirms the importance of singing in optimum health. A largely …

Perceptual systems have finite memory resources and must store incoming signals in
compressed formats. To explore whether representations of a sound's pitch might derive …