Music therapy is increasingly being used as an intervention for stress reduction in both
medical and mental healthcare settings. Music therapy is characterized by personally …

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 …

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 …

While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the
diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here, we outline the …

How is music represented in the brain? While neuroimaging has revealed some spatial
segregation between responses to music versus other sounds, little is known about the …

Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

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 …

Many of us “see red,”“feel blue,” or “turn green with envy.” Are such color-emotion
associations fundamental to our shared cognitive architecture, or are they cultural creations …

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for training
generalisable models on large-scale data in the fields of vision, text, and speech. Although …

Behavioral researchers increasingly recognize the need for more diverse samples that
capture the breadth of human experience. Current attempts to establish generalizability …