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Music cognition

Playing Super Mario 64 increases hippocampal grey matter in older adults

Greg L. West, Benjamin Rich Zendel, [ ... ], Sylvie Belleville

Musical Preferences are Linked to Cognitive Styles

David M. Greenberg, Simon Baron-Cohen, [ ... ], Peter J. Rentfrow

The Effect of Music on the Human Stress Response

Myriam V. Thoma, Roberto La Marca, [ ... ], Urs M. Nater

Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation

Charles J. Limb, Allen R. Braun

Music and Emotions in the Brain: Familiarity Matters

Carlos Silva Pereira, João Teixeira, [ ... ], Elvira Brattico

Practicing a Musical Instrument in Childhood is Associated with Enhanced Verbal Ability and Nonverbal Reasoning

Marie Forgeard, Ellen Winner, Andrea Norton, Gottfried Schlaug

The Paradox of Music-Evoked Sadness: An Online Survey

Liila Taruffi, Stefan Koelsch

Happy creativity: Listening to happy music facilitates divergent thinking

Simone M. Ritter, Sam Ferguson

Why are song lyrics becoming simpler? a time series analysis of lyrical complexity in six decades of American popular music

Michael E. W. Varnum, Jaimie Arona Krems, [ ... ], Igor Grossmann

The Rewarding Aspects of Music Listening Are Related to Degree of Emotional Arousal

Valorie N. Salimpoor, Mitchel Benovoy, [ ... ], Robert J. Zatorre

Instrumentational Complexity of Music Genres and Why Simplicity Sells

Gamaliel Percino, Peter Klimek, Stefan Thurner

A Biological Rationale for Musical Scales

Kamraan Z. Gill, Dale Purves

Music Alters Visual Perception

Jacob Jolij, Maaike Meurs

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