Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable
experience, moving us both physically and emotionally—and learning to play music shapes …

The neuroscience of music and music-based interventions (MBIs) is a fascinating but
challenging research field. While music is a ubiquitous component of every human society …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

INTRODUCTION Music is often assumed to be a human universal, emerging from an
evolutionary adaptation specific to music and/or a by-product of adaptations for affect …

Understanding how the brain translates a structured sequence of sounds, such as music,
into a pleasant and rewarding experience is a fascinating question which may be crucial to …

Emotions, bodily sensations and movement are integral parts of musical experiences. Yet, it
remains unknown i) whether emotional connotations and structural features of music elicit …

The sensation of groove has been defined as the pleasurable desire to move to music,
suggesting that both motor timing and reward processes are involved in this experience …

Since the publication of the first neuroscience study investigating emotion with music about
two decades ago, the number of functional neuroimaging studies published on this topic has …

Enjoying music reliably ranks among life's greatest pleasures. Like many hedonic
experiences, it engages several reward-related brain areas, with activity in the nucleus …

Empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics study two main issues: the valuation of sensory
objects and art experience. These two issues are often treated as if they were intrinsically …