Neuroscience

The Beatles contribute to the understanding of the brain

The brain area that controls our muscles also helps us remember music. The Beatles contributed unwittingly to improve knowledge of brain functioning (...)
Your preference for consonant music is not inborn but depends on your cultural environment

A new study on an isolated tribe in the Amazon, the Tsimane, highlights the characteristics of Western music based on the consonance experienced as pleasant and dissonance experienced as unpleasant, are not innate. (...)
When the music is good for health, Mozart, Strauss rather than ABBA

If the music of Mozart and Strauss is an important way to lower blood pressure and heart rate, this effect is not found in the music of ABBA. The maximum effect was found for the Symphony No. 40 in G minor (KV 550) (...)
Your pupil indicates the music you love

Music is a potent inducer of emotions. Your musical preferences read in your eyes (...)
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