Author Archives: music-mind-brain
Professor Alexandra Lamont And The Discussion Surrounding Music Psychology Research in The Field
By: Juan Pérez Ariza, Natalia Moreno Buitrago, Karun Salvady, Riley Simmonds, Satomi Takamine-Viviano Professor Alexandra Lamont, a renowned music psychology professor from Keele University, delivered a fascinating and instructive overview of music psychology research. However, her emphasis on real-life engagement … Continue reading
Music: The Comparable Power to Attract and Repel
By Ceren Ayyildiz, Alicia Kelleher-Clarke, Anthi Georgiadou, Alex Weber, Sean-Lee Duncan Aesthetic Judgement: An Historical Context Have you ever wondered how a piece of operatic music can bring one person to tears and yet make another want to obliterate the … Continue reading
Rhythms Around The World
By Alice Bowmer, Stella Betton, Alfie Lyon-Ray, Lisbeth Sorensen and Jordan Roche Rhythm is a universal experience that most people associate with sounds and movement. For example our heart beats with a pulse, we walk and dance to a beat … Continue reading
Better than drugs? How Music Makes Us Feel, Create and Fulfil
By Austin Coates, Christopher Charlwood, Ellen Murphy, Keerthana Vishwanath, Margot Dehove Have you ever wondered what motivates you throughout your day? Where do our desires and pleasures come from? These highly inter-connected experiences are orchestrated by a set of brain … Continue reading
Dementia and music: a promising connection.
By Caroline Harbison, Eleanor Matthewman, Eimear North, Miriam Olsen, Amy Rakei We are living longer, that is a fact! In the last 20 years, the average life expectancy in the UK has increased from 78- to 81-years-old, mainly due to … Continue reading
Tails of Wriggling Earworms And Losing Control over Musical Imagery What are Earworms?
An Introduction to Musical-Mental Imageries To understand where earworms, academically known as involuntary musical imagery (INMI), come from, Pearson (2013) believes that one must first consider the various types of mental imagery that support the everyday functioning of our mind. … Continue reading
Hearing Health and Musicians
By: Jasmin Galvan, India Haire, Roos Mehrtens, Caroline Rafizadeh Introduction Over 11 million people in the UK experience hearing loss (Report UK, 2015). By 2035, it is thought to affect more than 15 million people in the UK, one in … Continue reading
The unforgettable melodies – Can music help us understand how memories form?
By: Viviana Caro, Annina Huhtala, Henry Lee, Andrew McNeill, Kate Schwarz “Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away”, wrote John Irving in his enticing novel A Prayer for Owen Meany. But how … Continue reading
The Interacting Brains of Clients and Therapists: Investigating Music Therapy with a Dual-EEG Approach
Written by J’Ana Reed, Phoebe Tsou, Joon Oh, Matt Eitel, and Kate Chard Have you ever wondered what is happening in the brain of the client during therapy? How about the brain of the therapist? What changes in the brain … Continue reading
Boogie with the Brain
By Caitlin Colapietro, Gabriella Tan, Shin Chien Chua, Sophie Brodtkorb, Valeria Perboni, Zoe Sole The Neuroaesthetics of Dance Why is dance infectious? Dance is a form of art with the ability to arouse aesthetic experience — a “gratification of … Continue reading
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