brain imaging
Music calmed stressed bodies faster than water sounds in a brain-scan study
In 120 volunteers put through timed mental arithmetic, relaxing music brought heart rate and sweating down faster than soothing water sounds, but only when…
Brain recordings decode imagined melodies, roughly one note in four
In 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the cortex, a Seoul National University team predicted the contour of silently imagined children’s songs at 26%…
Seniors who kept playing an instrument held onto working memory
Kyoto University followed adults who started lessons at an average age of 73; four years on, those who quit lost verbal working memory and…