The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between spectrotemporal modulation (STM) sensitivity and the ability to perceive music. Ten normal-hearing (NH) listeners, ten hearing aid ...

Music is a highly multifaceted aspect of the human experience and therefore a privileged tool to gain insights into the key features of the human brain, its structure, and supporting neural processes.

This article was originally featured in MIT Press. In 2009, my research group found that newborns possess the ability to discern a regular pulse–the beat–in music. It’s a skill that might seem trivial ...

“You do find many people studying [the] neuroscience of music are musicians, and I’m no different,” he says. Auditory physiologist Nelson Kiang in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at Harvard/MIT helped ...

The Society for Music Perception and Cognition held its first in-person meeting in three years in Portland, Oregon, on August 4 through 7. Here are a few of the most intriguing findings I learned at ...

The human brain appears biased toward hearing and producing rhythms with simple integer ratios, but the favored ratios can vary greatly between different societies, according to a 15-country study.

From a general perspective, harmony in music is the balance of the proportions between the different parts of a whole, which causes a feeling of pleasure. "When we listen to music, each sound we hear ...

Josh McDermott is a University of Minnesota scientist who studies sound, music, and the brain. Last month McDermott treated a sold-out Bryant-Lake Bowl crowd to a fascinating presentation on “The ...

As many as two thirds of stroke victims find themselves suddenly unable to comprehend music. Beyond bad karaoke, these people fundamentally cannot differentiate pitches or rhythms. The medical term is ...

If you regularly play Rock Band, congratulations. You likely have better music perception skills than the average non-gamer. It’s not that surprising, considering that Rock Band requires you to match ...