From the University of Oregon press release via ScienceDaily: When De’Anthony Thomas returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown in the 2013 Fiesta Bowl, says University of Oregon researcher Frank Diaz, Thomas put Ducks fans…
From the Frontiers press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin have shown that synchronization emerges between brains when making music together, and even when musicians play different…
From the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: If you are among the 50 percent of Americans who suffer from insomnia, then you have probably tried everything – from warm milk to…
From the NIH press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers in the voice, speech, and language branch of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have used…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: New research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, offers insight into the neural underpinnings of musical timbre. Mounya Elhilali, of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues have…
From the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) press release via Newswise: People with perfect pitch seem to possess their own inner pitch pipe, allowing them to sing a specific note without first hearing a reference…
From the Duke University Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: By studying how birds master songs used in courtship, scientists at Duke University have found that regions of the brain involved in planning and controlling…
From the Rice University press release: Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release via Newswise: Driving down the road, Lisa Huisman Koops, from Case Western Reserve University, bursts into song. “I see a red car. What do you see?” Her…
From the University of Helsinki press release via AlphaGalileo: Computer scientists in Finland have developed a method that automatically composes music out of sleep measurements. The composition service works live on the Web at sleepmusicalization.net.…