News tagged with music cognition


Musicians' Brains 'Fine-Tuned' to Identify Emotion

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for a mate who in everyday conversation can pick up even your most subtle emotional cues? Find a musician, Northwestern University researchers suggest.





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Babies learn music while sleeping

Babies learn music while sleeping

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Early screening and treatment for infants with hearing problems, and the ability to computer-generate musical scores, are two very different possible outcomes of some “off-the-wall” research.


Blinkx adds music video search tool

Blinkx adds music video search tool

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Online video search engine blinkx launched a new tool Tuesday to find and watch music videos on the Internet.


Turn On, Tune In, Develop?

Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...


Newborn infants detect the beat in music

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam demonstrated that two to three day old babies can detect ...


Music videos from Warner were removed from YouTube in December

Warner music videos returning to YouTube

Technology / Internet

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

YouTube on Tuesday announced a deal to bring Warner Music Group songs back to the world's most popular online video sharing service.


Using music to explore the neural bases of emotional 'processing' in the autistic brain

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 13, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Music has a universal ability to tap into our deepest emotions. Unfortunately, for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), understanding emotions is a very difficult task. Can music help them?


Study uses music to explore the autistic brain's emotion processing

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 07, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Music has a universal ability to tap into our deepest emotions. Unfortunately, for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), understanding emotions is a very difficult task. Can music help them? Thanks to funding from ...


Is There a 'Mozart Effect'? Ask a Neuroscientist and a Musicologist

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists and musicians have learned that looking at the brain on music can yield valuable insights into how the mind works. Yet, University of Arkansas music theorist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis cautions ...


Facebook on Monday continued phasing Lala.com music service into its online shop

Lala.com gets in tune with Facebook gift shop

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook on Monday continued phasing Lala.com music service into its online shop, providing US users a way to buy music at the leading social networking service.


Music blog to offer high-quality song streaming

Technology / Internet

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Consumers seem reluctant to sign up for online music services that charge subscription fees, yet a music blogging site is hoping to reel in music lovers by offering unlimited access to a catalog of high-fidelity ...



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