neuroscience
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…
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%…
FNIH launches a Music as Medicine neuroscience initiative with Renée Fleming
The Foundation for the NIH announced the program on July 2 with soprano Renée Fleming, drummer Mickey Hart and Jim Weiss; the stated aim…
How your ear turns air pressure into perception
From eardrum to a coiled piano keyboard inside the skull, with 15,000 hair cells that do not grow back, and a 2026 finding that…