News tagged with music cognition
Background music can impair performance, cites new study
For decades research has shown that listening to music alleviates anxiety and depression, enhances mood, and can increase cognitive functioning, such as spatial awareness. However, until now, research has not addressed how ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Experts look to music as way to uncover past buried by dementia
One had to look closely, but the white sneaker definitely tapped the floor. Slightly, softly, steadily. Like a heartbeat.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Playing along with the Mozart effect
Five months after we are conceived, music begins to capture our attention and wire our brains for a lifetime of aural experience. At the other end of life, musical memories can be imprinted on the brain so indelibly that ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Research Reveals First Evidence of Bimusicalism in Untrained Listeners
(PhysOrg.com) -- Music, like language, is affected by the mass cultural exchanges resulting from globalization. Bilingualism is increasing, and now a University of Arkansas researcher and her colleagues present the first ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 11, 2010 |
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New Features Found in Einstein's Brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- When one thinks of Einstein, it is natural to assume that obviously his brain differed from that of the average person. And, ever since Thomas Harvey, a pathologist in Princeton, removed Einste ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Music tuition can help children improve reading skills
Children exposed to a multi-year programme of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills compared with their non-musically ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Musicians' Brains 'Fine-Tuned' to Identify Emotion
(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for a mate who in everyday conversation can pick up even your most subtle emotional cues? Find a musician, Northwestern University researchers suggest.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 03, 2009 |
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