Earworms, those catchy snippets of music that loop in our minds, are a common experience for most people, especially music lovers. Factors like frequency of exposure and familiarity influence their ...

You're reading a report and trying to concentrate. The room is silent. But despite your best efforts to focus, a little snatch of melody - an ...

Researchers have shown that the brain’s primary auditory cortex is more responsive to human vocalizations associated with positive emotions and coming from our left side than to any other kind of ...

When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the brain, the auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not ...

The brain does not merely recognize the human voice. A study from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas ...

Zooming in on the auditory cortex, the researchers found three unique sets of neurons that light up while we listen to music. Two sets of neurons encode absolute pitch (individual musical notes) and ...