Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Monday, May 27, 2024

Ancient origins of aspects of instrumental and song melodies distinctive from those of language.

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 A global collaboration from many cultures shows that songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than...
Friday, February 09, 2024

Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures

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Interesting work from Putkinen et al. (open source) :   Significance Music is inherently linked with the body. Here, we investigated how m...
Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Why music training slows cognitive aging

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A team of Chinese collaborators has reported experiments in the Oxford academic journal Cerebral Cortex titled "Functional gradients i...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Musical rhythm training improves short-term memory for faces

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From Zanto et al :   Significance Musical training can improve numerous cognitive functions associated with musical performance. Yet, t...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Even novices intuit complex music theory,

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Bridget Alex does a nice summary of work by Weis and Peretz showing that people without musical training naturally improvise melodies that...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Music training enhances auditory and linguistic processing.

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From Neves et al. :   Highlights • Systematic review and meta-analysis of neurobehavioral effects of music training.  • We ask ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Neurons in the brain that respond mainly to singing

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New work from Norman-Haignere et al. describes a population of cells in our auditory cortex, located between the music and speech-selective...
Friday, January 28, 2022

The stories we imagine while listening to music depends on our culture.

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Margulis et al. (text from their introduction) ....compared quantitative measures of narrativity (the likelihood that an excerpt of music ...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

A musical offering.

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For this day that was central in my Protestant Christian Texas childhood: a performance by the Netherlands Bach Society of the Gloria in Exc...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Snippets of Bach

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To give MindBlog readers a bit of a break from brain and mind posts, I want to point out that the New York Times has a great series of artic...
Monday, October 04, 2021

Music can be infectious like a virus - the same mathematical model works for both

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Rosati et al. find that a standard model of epidemic disease, called the SIR model, fitts trends in song downloads over time: Popular song...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Monday morning tonic - A modern folk song about your brain

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Ryan Stotland, a song writer from Montreal, has pointed me to a few of his engaging pieces, and I pass on one of them to you . It rhapsodize...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Music and Medicine

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Amy McDermott does an open source article on how music is increasingly being employed as a medical therapy. Here are some clips from the ar...
Friday, December 25, 2020

A musical offering for this day.

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I'm grateful to a number of MindBlog viewers for their positive feedback on the recent series of posts on Barrett's book on emotion...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Baroque Music - Calming sounds for our times

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The New York Times offers another installment in its series that asks prominent artists to choose the five minutes or so they would play to...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

Origins of human music - two perspectives

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Because I wrote an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (coauthored with Vadim Arshavsky), that was published in 2010, I receive the j...
Monday, July 06, 2020

For a tranquil start to your week, Debussy with flowers

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In my slow cruising through old MindBlog posts, I just came across the following post from Monday, March 2, 2009.....perhaps a faintly calmi...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Nostalgia... Remember Disco??

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On my current tour through old MindBlog posts I came across this one from Jan 24, 2018, done during my early snowbird years in Fort Lauderda...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

A perky bit of piano - Haydn Fantasia in C major, glitches included

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I've generated almost 5,000 posts since this blog started in 2016 (before the first iPhone was released in 2017!, seems an aeon ago.) A...
Monday, March 02, 2020

Speech versus music in the brain

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Peter Stern summarizes work of Albouy et al. in the current issue of Science Magazine: To what extent does the perception of speech and m...