ReviewBrain sciences2021
Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter?
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- The effect of listening to music and drawing on coping with dysmenorrhea complaints in nursing students: randomized controlled trial.BMC women's health · 2024Trial
- Potential Effects of Music on Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease: Translating Mechanisms to Therapy.Neurology international · 2026Review
- Reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the extended Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire.PloS one · 2026Article
- Subjective experience of listening to favorite songs and Murottal Al-Qur'an in young adult women: a quantitative EEG case series.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- A taxonomic framework of music-based intervention components to guide research: recommendations from the NIH U24 music research networks.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Paralanguage as a tool for shaping stress response in Listeners: Multimodal physiological sensing study.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
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- A Systematic Review of EEG Studies on the Neural Effects of Quran Listening.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- How Culture and Musical Engagement Shape Musical Reward Sensitivity in Danish Teens: A Validation Study of the Danish Barcelona Musical Reward Questionnaire With 4641 Adolescents.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2025Article
- A Hybrid eHealth Mindfulness-Based Music Therapy Intervention for Adults Receiving an Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant.Music therapy perspectives · 2025Article
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- The Role of Music in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: A Comparative Analysis of Neuroscientific Research, Indigenous Entheogenic Ritual, and Contemporary Care Models.Psychedelic medicine (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Enhancing cognitive abilities in young adults with ADHD through instrumental music training: a comparative analysis of musicians and non-musicians.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Music Listening as Exploratory Behavior: From Dispositional Reactions to Epistemic Interactions with the Sonic World.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Frontal and cerebellar contributions to pitch and rhythm processing: a TMS study.Brain structure & function · 2024Article
- Examining students' music listening willingness and engagement to foster their musical achievement and development in higher educational institutions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A novel music-based therapeutic approach: the Therapeutic Music Listening.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Meaning in Music Is Intentional, but in Soundscape It Is Not-A Naturalistic Approach to the Qualia of Sounds.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Effect of Indian Music as an Auditory Stimulus on Physiological Measures of Stress, Anxiety, Cardiovascular and Autonomic Responses in Humans-A Randomized Controlled Trial.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2022Article
- Musical Enjoyment and Reward: From Hedonic Pleasure to Eudaimonic Listening.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
The last decades have seen a proliferation of music and brain studies, with a major focus on plastic changes as the outcome of continuous and prolonged engagement with music. Thanks to the advent of neuroaesthetics, research on music cognition has broadened its scope by considering the multifarious phenomenon of listening in all its forms, including incidental listening up to the skillful attentive listening of experts, and all its possible effects. These latter range from objective and sensorial effects directly linked to the acoustic features of the music to the subjectively affective and even transformational effects for the listener. Of special importance is the finding that neural activity in the reward circuit of the brain is a key component of a conscious listening experience. We propose that the connection between music and the reward system makes music listening a gate towards not only hedonia but also eudaimonia, namely a life well lived, full of meaning that aims at realizing one's own "daimon" or true nature. It is argued, further, that music listening, even when conceptualized in this aesthetic and eudaimonic framework, remains a learnable skill that changes the way brain structures respond to sounds and how they interact with each other.
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