Neuroscientists are closing in on a striking idea: some brain cells appear to be tuned specifically to music, firing in ...

Strengths and limitations of the tonal hierarchy theory, and of the probetone testing procedure used to substantiate that theory, are discussed. The tonal hierarchy theory is characterized as an ...

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 ...

For me, one of the most intriguing questions about music is the extent to which different aspects of human musicality are in-born as opposed to learned. Does the language you grew up speaking, and the ...

Get off the hamster wheel. Experience time with musical sensitivity. Use your refreshed time grid to configure music and life.

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 haunting melodies that bring tears to our eyes and the disorganized thoughts that characterize psychosis might seem worlds apart. Yet emerging research suggests these disparate experiences may ...

Scientists are increasingly interested in the nature and origins of music, as this special edition on music illustrates (see Page 17). As director of the Centre for Music and Science at the University ...