Humans can find music happy, sad, fearful or spiritual. They can be soothed by it or urged to
dance. Whether these psychological responses reflect cognitive adaptations that evolved …

Efforts to integrate music into healthcare systems and wellness practices are accelerating
but the biological foundations supporting these initiatives remain underappreciated. As a …

Music has been called “the universal language of mankind.” Although contemporary
theories of music evolution often invoke various musical universals, the existence of such …

Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying
increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged …

What is the nature of the feelings evoked by music? We investigated how people represent
the subjective experiences associated with Western and Chinese music and the form in …

Experimental evidence demonstrates robust cross-modal matches between music and
colors that are mediated by emotional associations. US and Mexican participants chose …

Speech and song have been transmitted orally for countless human generations, changing
over time under the influence of biological, cognitive, and cultural pressures. Cross-cultural …

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly
updated fourth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student …

Music is a ubiquitous phenomenon in human cultures, mostly due to its power to evoke and
regulate emotions. However, effects of music evoking different emotional experiences such …

Music is universal at least partly because it expresses emotion and regulates affect.
Associations between music and emotion have been examined regularly by music …