All Articles Tagged As: music

Singing in the brain: Baby birds' chirps use different neural pathway (5/2/2008)

Young songbirds babble before they can mimic an adult's song, much like their human counterparts. Now, in work that offers insights into how birds--and perhaps people--learn new behaviors, scientists have found that immature and adult birdsongs are driven by two separate brain pathways, rather than one pathway that slowly matures. ...> Full Article

Neurons hard wired to tell left from right (4/2/2008)

It's well known that the left and right sides of the brain differ in many animal species and this is thought to influence cognitive performance and social behaviour. For instance, in humans, the left half of the brain is concerned with language processing whereas the right side is better at comprehending musical melody. ...> Full Article

Research Suggests Experience, Not Genetics, Affects Musicians' Brain Responses (2/3/2008)

By looking at brains listening to Bach, Elizabeth Margulis, a music cognition researcher, has found evidence to support one side in a long-running debate among musicians. Practice, training and experience, it appears, are what develop a musician's ear, not genetic predisposition. ...> Full Article

Stimulating Muscles May Improve Musician's Dystonia (12/29/2007)

Therapy that stimulates the hand muscles may help treat the condition called musician's dystonia, a movement disorder that causes muscles spasms in musicians, according to a study published in the December 26, 2007, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. ...> Full Article

Researchers Find Music and Language are Processed by the Same Brain Systems (9/28/2007)

Researchers have long debated whether or not language and music depend on common processes in the mind. Now researchers have found evidence that the processing of music and language do indeed depend on some of the same brain systems. ...> Full Article

How The Brain Responds As The Beat Goes On (8/7/2007)

McGill, Stanford researchers first to map neural responses to transitions in music ...> Full Article

Music Moves Brain To Pay Attention (8/4/2007)

Using brain images of people listening to short symphonies by an obscure 18th-century composer, a research team from the Stanford University School of Medicine has gained valuable insight into how the brain sorts out the chaotic world around it. ...> Full Article