Would they be the same ones you’d pick for an album cover or music video for the heavy metal band Metallica? Probably not. For years, my collaborators and I have been studying music-to-color ...

Movies have a way of making us laugh, cry, or hold our breath in suspense. Music is a big part of why this happens. A soft ...

People express different emotions when they listen to music, for example by smiling, laughing, or crying. Listening to music is quite common in our daily lives, and the way music makes listeners feel ...

Source: Pixabay License Free for commercial use No attribution required One of the most important issues in the psychology of music is how music affects emotional experience (Juslin, 2019). Most music ...

Music is a powerful tool for conveying mood, whether heard via a live performance or movie soundtrack, making it an effective medium for understanding how people identify and respond to emotions.

As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between feelings—like joy, sadness, or fear—aren’t just random reactions. They’re part of a ...

I know that music is acting as a stimulus in my brain, activating multiple regions between both hemispheres. Through a cascade of reactions and firing neurons, music helps my brain process the immense ...

A new study of the Turku PET Centre in Finland has shown that music evokes similar emotions and bodily sensations around the world. Music can be felt directly in the body. When we hear our favourite ...

That’s the gift of music recaps: Rather than focusing on exclusively listening history, the recap reveals what you were ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2015, Matt Kerr was fresh out of college and full of ideas ...