/newsroom/taxonomy/term/2591/all en /newsroom/channels/news/science-behind-playing-music-sync-350682 <p><!-- x-tinymce/html --></p> <p>Music is a collective experience that binds people together. From orchestral play to audiences handclapping, synchronization lays the foundation for all musical interactions. But what explains our ability to get in sync with someone or act in lock step with a group?</p> Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:14:00 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 307337 at /newsroom /newsroom/christopher-silver Mon, 30 Jan 2023 06:25:41 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288866 at /newsroom /newsroom/robert-zatorre Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:55:19 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288316 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/human-song-universal-302755 <p>Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data scientists, psychologists, political scientists and linguists, including one from Â鶹AV, reached this conclusion after five years of collaboration, bringing together a broad range of skills and tools to the question of whether music is universal.</p> <p><b>Using broad datasets to arrive at deep conclusions about music</b></p> Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:04:31 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 188800 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/music-improves-social-communication-autistic-children-291353 <p>Engaging in musical activities such as singing and playing instruments in one-on-one therapy can improve autistic children’s social communication skills, improve their family’s quality of life, as well as increased brain connectivity in key networks, according to researchers at UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al and Â鶹AV.</p> Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:37:01 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 97926 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/cnn-children-playing-guitar-heal-285386 <p>Scientific research supports theories that music is healing. "The studies show that music can create profound neurochemical and biological changes, tangible, demonstrable ones," said psychologist Daniel Levitin, a professor emeritus at Â鶹AV in Montreal, who specializes in neuroscience and music.<br /> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/us/turpin-children-music-therapy/index.html">CNN</a></p> Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:05:15 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 33014 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/being-musician-can-help-you-decipher-language-loud-environments-283335 <p>A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that musical training helps people hear speech syllables in loud environments, and has shown how this happens. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers Yi Du and Robert Zatorre monitored brain function as musicians and non-musicians listened to speech fragments and varying background noise levels.</p> Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:57:48 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32766 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/sex-drugs-and-rock-roll-chemistry-brain-265603 <p>The same brain-chemical system that mediates feelings of pleasure from sex, recreational drugs, and food is also critical to experiencing musical pleasure, according to a study by Â鶹AV researchers published today in the <em>Nature</em> journal <em>Scientific Reports</em>.</p> Mon, 06 Feb 2017 20:49:25 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26679 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/lack-joy-music-linked-brain-disconnection-264912 <div>Have you ever met someone who just wasn’t into music? They may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five per cent of the population.</div> <div> </div> <div>Researchers at the University of Barcelona and the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of Â鶹AV have discovered that people with this condition showed reduced functional connectivity between cortical regions responsible for processing sound and subcortical regions related to reward.</div> <div> </div> Wed, 04 Jan 2017 15:38:40 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26524 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/dont-scan-so-close-me-262057 <p><span>What does the 1960s Beatles hit “Girl” have in common with Astor Piazzolla’s evocative tango composition “Libertango”?</span></p> <p><span>Probably not much, to the casual listener. But in the mind of one famously eclectic singer-songwriter, the two songs are highly similar. That’s one of the surprising findings of an unusual neuroscience study based on brain scans of the musician <strong>Sting</strong>.</span></p> Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:35:34 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26076 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/17-million-shape-future-music-261118 <p><strong><em><a href="/newsroom">​Â鶹AV Newsroom</a></em></strong><span> </span></p> <p>This significant investment of public and private support will redefine the future of music research in Canada by transforming the way musicians compose, listen and perform music.</p> Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:04:26 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25934 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/scientists-create-new-way-categorize-music-260798 <p>A team of scientists from Â鶹AV, the University of Cambridge, and Stanford Graduate School of Business developed a new method of coding and categorizing music. They found that people’s preference for these musical categories is driven by personality. The researchers say the findings have important implications for industry and health professionals.</p> Tue, 10 May 2016 16:05:05 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 25818 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/find-partner-who-marches-beat-your-own-drum-258294 <p><strong><em>By Cynthia Lee</em></strong></p> <p><a href="/newsroom/"><strong>Newsroom</strong></a></p> <p>Everyone marches to the beat of their own drum: From walking to talking to producing music, different people’s movements occur at different speeds.</p> Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:45:11 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25221 at /newsroom /newsroom/douglas-mcnabney Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23574 at /newsroom /newsroom/stephen-mcadams Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:35:06 +0000 Anonymous 23236 at /newsroom