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Prescribed music' could ease pain or depression
A research project at Glasgow Caledonian University is currently taking a close look at why a certain piece of music evokes a particular emotive response. It is hoped that the research may lead to music being used to bring folks out of a depression or even help with pain management.
gizmag.com, Paul Ridden, Sept. 13, 2010
Swan song: have your ashes pressed as vinyl
And Vinyly, this UK-based company will press your cremated ashes into a vinyl playing a track of your choice or a vocal message for your friends and family to enjoy and remember you by.
gizmag.com, Tannith Cattermole, Sept. 5, 2010
sciencdaily.com, July 28th, 2010
How Music Training Primes Nervous System and Boosts Learning
A data-driven review pulls together converging research from the scientific literature linking musical training to learning that spills over to skills including language, speech, memory, attention ...
sciencdaily.com, July 20th, 2010
Rhythm of Life: Music Shows Potential in Stroke Rehabilitation
Music therapy provided by trained music therapists may help to improve movement in stroke patients, according to a new review. A few small trials also suggest a wider role for music in recovery from ...
sciencdaily.com, July 7th, 2010
Scientists Discover Heavenly Solar Music
Musical sounds created by longitudinal vibrations within the Sun's atmosphere, have been recorded and accurately studied for the first time by researchers, shedding light on the Sun's magnetic ...
sciencdaily.com, June 22nd, 2010
Portable media players associated with short-term hearing effects
... authors write as background in the study. The increasing popularity and availability of portable music players has caused concern about the potential hazardous effects on hearing. "Excessive noise ...
esciencenews.com, June 21st, 2010
Love ballad leaves women more open to a date
... says Guéguen. "The results are interesting for scientists who work on the effect of background music on individuals' behaviour." The results also add weight to a general learning model proposed by ...
esciencenews.com, June 18th,2010
Individual Differences Reveal the Basis of Consonance
Some combinations of musical notes are consonant (pleasant), whereas others are dissonant (unpleasant), a distinction central to music. Explanations of consonance in terms of acoustics, auditory neuroscience, and enculturation have been debated for centuries...
Josh H. McDermott, Andriana J. Lehr and Andrew J. Oxenham, cell.com, June 8th,2010
Get rhythm -- why the key to finding music you like is rhythm, not genre
A new study that begins to quantify musical aesthetics.
Lena Weber, Institute of Physics, May 20th, 2010
Mozart's music does not make you smarter!
Oh well, but don't return your Mozart CDs. If the articles below haven't taught you anything, there ain't nothing bad about Mozart.
University of Vienna, May 10, 2010
Music as a memory enhancer in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
This study finds that music enhances certain memory tasks of people with Alzheimer's, however it had no effect on neurotypical people.
Simmons-Stern NR, Budson AE, Ally BA., Neuropsychologia, May 7, 2010
A virtual muscle machine for kids with disabilities
"The movement-oriented games allowed them to 'make music' and reach targets in ways that are normally neither comfortable nor fun in the therapeutic setting," she explains. ...
esciencenews.com , April, 2010
Music and dyslexia
There is no link between a lack of musical ability and dyslexia.
José Morais, International Journal of Arts and Technology , March, 2010
Moderate use of video games can be a very useful educational tool for teaching children
Video games can have a very positive influence in the education of children, and, when used in moderation, they do not harm children's academic performance.
University of Grenada ,March 11, 2010
Playing Music on Your Clothing
In the future it may be considerably easier for orchestras to tour. Jeannine Han, who is in the second year of her master's program in textiles and fashion design at the Swedish School of Textiles in ...
sciencedaily.com ,March 10, 2010
Making Braille Music Universally Accessible
Blind musicians have had restricted access to scores due to the scarcity and limitations of Braille transcriptions. A new European system makes music for the blind more available and far easier to ...
sciencedaily.com , January 22nd, 2010
How Music 'Moves' Us: Listeners' Brains Second-Guess the Composer
Have you ever accidentally pulled your headphone socket out while listening to music? What happens when the music stops? Psychologists believe that our brains continuously predict what is going to ..
sciencedaily.com , January 16th, 2010
A sonata a day keeps the doctor away
... occasioned the response, Dr. Mandel offers one hypothesis. "The repetitive melodies in Mozart's music may be affecting the organizational centers of the brain's cortex," he says. "Unlike Beethoven, ...
esciencenews.com , January 7th, 2010
Suppressing Tinnitus With Music Therapy
Research that may ameliorate the ringing in your ears.
Henry Fountain , New York Times , January 5th, 2010
Study aims to hit right note for mental health therapy
A landmark study into how music therapy can assist children and young people with severe mental health problems is shortly to begin in the North.
Charlie Taylor, Irish Times , December 22nd , 2009
Being a culture vulture boosts wellbeing
Just when you thought healthcare was complex...just take an art class!
Sideways News, December 17th , 2009
Using Personalized Brain Music to Combat Migraines
"I will take this recording and translate it digitally with a very complex algorithm into musical frequencies to create for the patient his or her personalized music file," Mindlin said.
Paula Rizzo, foxnews.com, (posted on DR) November 16th , 2009
Music Lessons Boost Brain Power
"Still more evidence that formal music training strengthens auditory cortex responses came in a study performed by Antoine Shahin, now at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Shahin believes that musical training gives an individual the acoustic responsiveness of a child some 2 - 3 years older."
foxnews.com, November 6th , 2009
Looking for Origins of Music in the Brain
"Music serves as a natural and non-invasive intervention for patients with severe neurological disorders to promote long-term memory, social interaction and communication. However, there is currently..."
sciencedaily.com, October 2nd , 2009
CSU teaches movement with music
"The motor system responds very strongly to patterns of sound and rhythm," CSU's Dr. Michael Thaut, one of original researchers, said.
Adam Chodak, 9news.com, October 9th , 2009
Scary Music Is Scarier With Your Eyes Shut
"...instead of listening to music and sounds in the dark — can elicit more intense physical responses in the brain itself. This finding may have therapeutic value in treating people with brain disorders. Her research was just published in PLoS One and builds on her 2007 study published in Cerebral Cortex.
sciencedaily.com, Sept. 16th , 2009
Monkeys Get a Groove On...
"New research shows that a monkey called the cotton-top tamarin responds to music. The catch? These South American monkeys are essentially immune to human music, but they respond appropriately to .....
sciencedaily.com, September 2nd , 2009
Taking up music so you can hear
"Anyone with an MP3 device has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination. But musical training should not be seen simply as stuff of the soul -- a frill ...
sciencedaily.com, August 17th , 2009
Orangutans Make Musical Instrument
"Orangutans in Borneo have developed and passed along a way to make a useful, improvised instrument, researchers report....
Andrea Thomson, livescience.com, August 10th , 2009
Next-generation Sound Systems To Minimize Background Noise
"The whole listening experience in cars, cinemas, theaters, and even during video conferences, is likely to improve radically thanks to a new set of tools for application ...
sciencedaily.com, July 28th , 2009
The Sounds Of Learning: Studying The Impact Of Music On Children With Autism
"The power of music affects all of us and has long appealed to our emotions. It is for this reason that researchers are using music to help children with autism spectrum disorders, for whom ...
sciencedaily.com, July 21st , 2009
Songbirds reveal how practice improves performance
"Over many days we can train the bird to move the pitch of the syllable up and down the musical scale." On a particular day, after four hours of training in which the birds learned to raise...
esciencenews.com, July 6th , 2009
Patriotic Music May Close Minds, Children's Music May Open Them
The words to "Itsy Bitsy Spider" tell a simple story about an arachnid and a spout, but simply recalling the lines could initiate an unintentional attitude. That's the focus of research by Kansas State University's Eduardo Alvarado, sophomore in pre-law,who is looking at the behaviors elicited from the musical lyrics of common songs.
Eduardo Alvarado, Kansas State University, June 23, 2009
Need something? Talk to my right ear!
... club environments. In the first study, 286 clubbers were observed while they were talking, with loud music in the background. In total, 72 percent of interactions occurred on the right side of the ...
eSciencenews.com, June 23, 2009
Paleolithic Bone Flute Discovered: Earliest Musical Tradition Documented In Southwestern Germany
Researchers in Germany have unearthed new evidence for Paleolithic music in the form of the remains of one nearly complete bone flute and isolated small fragments of three ivory flutes. The discovery ...
Sciencedaily.com, June 25, 2009
