ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2022
Music in the brain.
Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 181 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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181 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The neurophysiology of healthy and pathological aging: a comprehensive systematic review.Brain structure & function · 2025Pooled it
- Music intervention for neurodevelopment in the pediatric population: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Cognitive enhancement through music therapy: meta-analytic evidence across clinical population.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Care intervention on psychological outcomes among patients admitted to intensive care unit: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Scientific Studies on the Effects of Music in People with Personality Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- An ALE meta-analytic review of musical expertise.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- Self-Chosen Music as a Contributor to Music-Induced Analgesia Across Diverse Socio-Cultural Backgrounds: A Crossover Randomised Controlled Trial.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2025Trial
- Dissociable effects of psilocybin and escitalopram for depression on processing of musical surprises.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Trial
- The effect of listening to music and drawing on coping with dysmenorrhea complaints in nursing students: randomized controlled trial.BMC women's health · 2024Trial
- Music Therapy Increases Social and Emotional Well-Being in Persons With Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Crossover Trial Comparing Singing to Verbal Discussion.Journal of music therapy · 2023Trial
- LSD reconfigures cortical dynamics through faster brain rhythms and increased fractal dimension.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Musical Episodic Modulation of Human Functioning: Anticipation Mechanisms, Personal Sense, and Emotional Recall.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2026Article
- Expressing emotions through music.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Looking Back While Reading Ahead: Regressive Fixations and Temporal Anticipation in Music Sight-Reading.Journal of eye movement research · 2026Article
- Music and Exercise in Concert: Uncovering Synergistic Mechanisms for Enhancing Brain Health and Cognitive Resilience-A Narrative Review.Brain and behavior · 2026Review
- Female Budgerigars Attend Equally to Rhythmic Beat or Repetition, While Humans Prioritize Their Combination.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Music evokes shared neural representations of imagined narratives across sensory modalities.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Heart rate control by listening to light.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Rhythmic Structure Shapes Dyadic Self-Other Representations Through Interpersonal Action Coupling.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Embodied Responses to Harmony and (Poly)Rhythm: An Integrated Ratio-Based Perception-Action Framework.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
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Abstract
Music is ubiquitous across human cultures - as a source of affective and pleasurable experience, moving us both physically and emotionally - and learning to play music shapes both brain structure and brain function. Music processing in the brain - namely, the perception of melody, harmony and rhythm - has traditionally been studied as an auditory phenomenon using passive listening paradigms. However, when listening to music, we actively generate predictions about what is likely to happen next. This enactive aspect has led to a more comprehensive understanding of music processing involving brain structures implicated in action, emotion and learning. Here we review the cognitive neuroscience literature of music perception. We show that music perception, action, emotion and learning all rest on the human brain's fundamental capacity for prediction - as formulated by the predictive coding of music model. This Review elucidates how this formulation of music perception and expertise in individuals can be extended to account for the dynamics and underlying brain mechanisms of collective music making. This in turn has important implications for human creativity as evinced by music improvisation. These recent advances shed new light on what makes music meaningful from a neuroscientific perspective.
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