Music perception and training constitute a multidisciplinary field that explores the intricate interplay between acoustic signals, neural processing and experiential learning. At its core, the study ...

Josh McDermott is a University of Minnesota scientist who studies sound, music, and the brain. Last month McDermott treated a sold-out Bryant-Lake Bowl crowd to a fascinating presentation on “The ...

This article was originally featured in MIT Press. In 2009, my research group found that newborns possess the ability to discern a regular pulse–the beat–in music. It’s a skill that might seem trivial ...

The human brain appears biased toward hearing and producing rhythms with simple integer ratios, but the favored ratios can vary greatly between different societies, according to a 15-country study.

In a recent article published in PLOS Biology, researchers reconstructed a piece of music from neural recordings using computer modeling as they investigated the spatial neural dynamics underpinning ...

Researchers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, have demonstrated that recognizable versions of classic Pink Floyd rock music can be reconstructed just from the brain activity that was ...