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Music written to sound sweet changed how 28 brains processed taste
In a brain-scanner study in Scientific Reports, sweet drinks paired with matching music lit up taste and reward areas more than sweet drinks alone.
Music did not amplify LSD’s effect on the brain in a Montreal study
In 17 volunteers scanned with and without ambient music, the researchers expected music to deepen the drug’s effect and found a weak trend the…
Musicians are slightly harder to fool with the ventriloquism illusion
In 70 Australian students, trained musicians let a flash of light drag their sense of where a sound came from 1.6 degrees less than…
A Case Western lab is turning live brainwaves back into music
Revived from 1960s experimental music, the Brain Media Lab plays EEG signals as sound, with a David Rosenboom concert in Cleveland on February 14.
Phantom music is not mainly a hearing-loss problem, a Dutch study finds
Among 80 people in The Hague who hear music no one is playing, half had no documented hearing loss, and most heard old hymns…
A sharper ear for plain tones helps learners hear foreign vowels
In 140 Japanese students learning English, telling apart tones a few hertz apart predicted vowel accuracy about as well as time abroad did.
Blind listeners tell pitches apart better because their brains are quieter
A Georgia Tech study found the advantage is not in the ear but in less trial-to-trial noise in the brain, the same change musical…