A few years ago, two neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) made a friendly bet on whether or not the human brain responded differently to harmonic tones (heard in music ...

Malinda McPherson had harmony in her head when she first picked up a viola at age 8 and has helped guide her through her academic research. A member of Forbes’ 2022 “30 Under 30” list in science, ...

In the eternal search for understanding what makes us human, scientists found that our brains are more sensitive to pitch, the harmonic sounds we hear when listening to music, than our evolutionary ...

Vince Clarke has an ear for melody. He's behind some of the biggest songs of the '80s and '90s, made during his time in the U.K. bands Yazoo, Erasure, and Depeche Mode. Since moving to Brooklyn in the ...

June 11 (UPI) --The human brain is uniquely tuned to appreciate music, according to a new study. "We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than ...

Vibrations originating from an iceberg were recorded seismographically at the Antarctic Neumayer Station by scientists of the Alfred Wegener Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and ‘Fielax ...

A few years ago, two neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) made a friendly bet on whether or not the human brain responded differently to harmonic tones (heard in music ...

Results of a study involving primates suggest that speech and music may have shaped the human brain's hearing circuits. In the eternal search for understanding what makes us human, scientists found ...