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Music and the Brain

The Sound Explorer

Northwestern neuroscientist Nina Kraus discusses the effect that music has on brain development and education, her path to research, and sharing science via her lab's extraordinary website.
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Music and the Brain

NIH ‘Sound Health’ Grants Raise the Volume on Music, Singing Research

We sense that music changes our moods and thinking, but how and why? US national health institutes are sponsoring a wave of studies to investigate.

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Music and the Brain

The Science of Music: A Talk with Pascal Wallisch, Ph.D.

What does our taste in music say about us as individuals?
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Music and the Brain

Sound Health: Shaping Our Children’s Lives Through Music Engagement

For a second year, the National Institutes of Health and the Kennedy Center for the Arts spent a weekend exploring the connections between music, the brain, and humanity.
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Music and the Brain

Do Complex Tasks Train Your Brain to be More Efficient?

Musicians and people who speak multiple languages are faster at identifying sound location and type but show differences in speed of recalling past sounds.
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Music and the Brain

#WSF18: Why Music Makes Us Shiver

Musicians and neuroscientists gathered at NYU’s Global Center to explore what happens within our brains when we hear a piece of music and how much of listening is a subjective experience.

Music and the Brain

And All That Jazz: A Q&A with Michael Shadlen, M.D., Ph.D.

For International Jazz Day, we interviewed Dana Alliance member Michael Shadlen about his thoughts on jazz, timing, and how music connects with his research interests.

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Music and the Brain

Music and Meaning: Hitting the Right Notes

Three prominent researchers share their thoughts on the relationship between music and the brain, and what makes something worthwhile.

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Music and the Brain

Different Types of Music May Aid Stroke Recovery

Building on work showing that listening to music helps speed peoples’ recovery from stroke, researchers find that the peppy song you love triggers different brain areas than unfamiliar music.
Music and the Brain

Sound Health: Music and the Mind

Following a science workshop held in March, the National Institutes of Health and the Kennedy Center for the Arts hosted renowned musicians, scientists, and music therapists for a day of talk and music-making.
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