AI composer bias: Listeners like music less when they think it was composed by an AI.

DB Shank, C Stefanik, C Stuhlsatz… - Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to compose music is becoming mainstream. Yet, there is
a concern that listeners may have biases against AIs. Here, we test the hypothesis that …

Music therapy increases social and emotional well-being in persons with dementia: a randomized clinical crossover trial comparing singing to verbal discussion

AE Reschke-Hernández, K Gfeller… - Journal of music …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The number of people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) is
growing proportional to our aging population. Although music-based interventions may offer …

Investigating the role of involuntary retrieval in music-evoked autobiographical memories

AM Belfi, E Bai, A Stroud, R Twohy… - Consciousness and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Music is a particularly salient autobiographical memory cue. Prior work has indicated that
autobiographical memories evoked by music are more episodically rich than those evoked …

Confronting ethical and social issues related to the genetics of musicality

RL Gordon, DO Martschenko, S Nayak… - Annals of the New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
New interdisciplinary research into genetic influences on musicality raises a number of
ethical and social issues for future avenues of research and public engagement. The …

Assessing vocal chanting as an online psychosocial intervention

FM Simpson, G Perry, WF Thompson - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ancient practice of chanting typically takes place within a community as a part of a live
ceremony or ritual. Research suggests that chanting leads to improved mood, reduced …

The use of deep learning-based gesture interactive robot in the treatment of autistic children under music perception education

Y Zhang, C Zhang, L Cheng, M Qi - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The purpose of this study was to apply deep learning to music perception education. Music
perception therapy for autistic children using gesture interactive robots based on the concept …

Comparative musicology: The science of the world's music

PE Savage - 2022 - osf.io
What is music, and why did it evolve? How can we understand the unity and diversity found
throughout the world's music? Scientific attempts to answer these questions through cross …

From commitment to action: Assessing the impact of new mentorship programs to promote equity in the Society for Music Perception and Cognition

T Agrawal, AX Cui, MD Lense, G Lopez… - Music Perception: An …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
Perception and Cognition (SMPC) contributed an editorial where it made a series of
important commitments to embrace anti-racist practices and promote equity in the field …

Your ears don't change what your eyes like: People can independently report the pleasure of music and images.

J Frame, M Gugliano, E Bai, A Brielmann… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Observers can make independent aesthetic judgments of at least two images presented
briefly and simultaneously. However, it is unknown whether this is the case for two stimuli of …

Using a developmental-ecological approach to understand the relation between language and music

EH Wojcik, DJ Lassman, DT Vuvan - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Neurocognitive and genetic approaches have made progress in understanding language-
music interaction in the adult brain. Although there is broad agreement that learning …