Comment se fait-il que la musique puisse agir comme un véritable tonic pour la plupart d’entre nous, tout en laissant certains complètement indifférents ?
- Professor, Neuropsychology, University of Westminster
La musique vous laisse de marbre, que ce soit du Mozart ou un bon vieux Rolling Stones ? Des chercheurs lèvent le voile sur les ressorts de cette « anhédonie musicale », qui se nichent dans le cerveau.
How can music be such an extraordinary tonic for most of us, but leave others cold?
In March 2022, it was announced that Willis had aphasia. The latest diagnosis is sadly worse.
Swearing can raise our pain threshold.
Clapping is the auditory equivalent of a group hug, according to neuroscience.
Research shows that feeling younger than you are could be good for you.
The risk smartphones pose to our memory is overblown, but they do get in the way of us making more detailed and authentic memories.
Long after people with dementia have forgotten the names of their loved ones, they can still recall songs they learned in their teenage years.
Six weeks ago I arrived back in London after my first trip to Australia. It felt considerably colder than the 34 degrees we’d left behind in Sydney, but the skies were clear and blue. Or were they? My…
Imagine you’ve suddenly been given a job as a car mechanic but there’s a slight hitch: you know nothing whatsoever about cars, there are no books to help you, no internet and no-one who is willing to tell…
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