Efforts to integrate music into healthcare systems and wellness practices are accelerating
but the biological foundations supporting these initiatives remain underappreciated. As a …

The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The
database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically …

Congenital amusia is a neuro-developmental disorder of music perception and production.
The hypothesis is that the musical deficits arise from altered pitch processing, with …

Numerous studies have investigated whether music can reliably convey emotions to
listeners, and—if so—what musical parameters might carry this information. Far less …

Disorders of music and speech perception, known as amusia and aphasia, have traditionally
been regarded as dissociated deficits based on studies of brain damaged patients. This has …

Being “in flow” or “in the zone” is defined as an extremely focused state of consciousness
which occurs during intense engagement in an activity. In general, flow has been linked to …

Emotional responses to biologically significant events are essential for human survival. Do
human emotions lawfully track changes in the acoustic environment? Here we report that …

A number of theories about the origins of musicality have incorporated biological and social
perspectives. Darwin argued that musicality evolved by sexual selection, functioning as a …

The Musical Emotional Bursts (MEB) consist of 80 brief musical executions expressing basic
emotional states (happiness, sadness and fear) and neutrality. These musical bursts were …

Humans exhibit what appears to be a unique vocal property: octave equivalence, whereby
adult male voices are, on average, an octave lower in pitch than those of adult females and …