Humans have latched onto rhythms and tunes for millennia. Does all this music have an evolutionary purpose or is it just “evolutionary cheesecake”?
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Music, memories and emotions are all linked and certain songs can act as a direct line to our past.
If you love heavy metal, it can boost your well-being in several different ways.
There is a long list of bands that fell apart over artistic differences. But conflict between band members – and even some creative sledging – can be crucial to making better music.
The emotions associated with trends in popular music and lyrics can predict economic sentiment.
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A podcast on what music does to our brains, and why it moves us.
If computer pioneer Ada Lovelace had strong women role models even in her day, we must ensure women continue to do so today.
If the brain processes words and mathematical symbols differently, why not musical symbols too?
According to recent research, music is an evolutionary adaptation that helps us navigate a world rife with contradictions.
From serving newborns to treating hospice patients, music can be used in medical and psychological treatment with surprising – and real – results.
We’re enjoying the one time of year when protests of “I can’t sing!” are laid aside and we sing carols with others. For some this is a once-a-year special event; the rest of the year is left to the professionals…
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at … zzzzzz snooooore. It’s that time of year again, and at the risk of promoting bah humbug over chestnuts roasting, I’m very Ebenezer Scrooge when…
Music is what penetrates most deeply into the recesses of the soul, according to Plato. Language has been held by thinkers from Locke to Leibniz and Mill to Chomsky as a mirror or a window to the mind…
A magnificently scornful piece in The Guardian this weekend flagged the trend for “sad bangers”, music in which, “Sensitive lads across the land have abandoned their cardies and acoustic guitars for varsity…
We rightly marvel at the skills of a talented musician, especially witnessing them perform live. But how does someone become so skilled? Obviously hours and hours of dedicated practice is a necessity…
Kiss your lunchtime web surfing plans goodbye, because I guarantee that whatever page you were planning to visit next, you will instead want to go to YouGov. We know that your musical taste tells everyone…
Let’s hope the Wallabies are inspired by a rousing rendition of the national anthem as they prepare to face their old enemy the All Black’s at tomorrow’s Bledisloe Cup match. The Kiwis invariably come…
Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced this week that from October all music videos shown in the United Kingdom will carry a movie-style age-appropriateness rating, stating whether each is appropriate…
Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt can currently be found battling in multiplexes around the world, but as the recent viral video of him shows, he also has a magnificent ability to rap. (Just don’t…
Rudy Kurniawan this week became the first person to go to jail for selling fake wine. In addition to his ten year sentence he was ordered to pay US$20m, plus millions in restitution to victims, including…
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Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
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Professor of Digital Media, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Music Psychology, Durham University
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Visiting Scholar, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
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PhD candidate in Psychology, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Music Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Professor of Music, Health and the Brain, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Music, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York
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Professor of Creative and Performing Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Sport, Exercise & Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in Music and Cultural Theory, Newcastle University
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Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London