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An International Interdisciplinary Commentary on the Revised Guidelines for Music-based Interventions Checklist, Elaboration Guide and Validation Study The newly revised reporting guidelines for music-based interventions (RG-MBI) accompanied by the explanation and elaboration guidance document (Robb, Story

This invited commentary provides an interdisciplinary, international perspective on newly expanded & validated music intervention reporting guidelines

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A must read for any music therapist or anyone who does music intervention research.

#musictherapy #musicscience

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#MilesDavis — The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965

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FIRST TIME IN 30 YEARS—EVERY NOTE FROM SEVEN FULL SETS ACROSS 10 LPS

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MUSICONNEX Welcome to the MUSICONNEX Conference, in Jyväskylä, 22-24 September 2026!

Excited to announce the MUSICONNEX Conference @ Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body, and Brain, Uni of Jyväskylä FI, Sep 22–24 2026! 🤩

Keynotes: Prof. Katrina McFerran, Prof. Elizabeth Margulis & Prof. Hauke Egermann. Abstract submissions open!

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Peaky Blinders: Artist creates mural on Digbeth studio walls Mr Murals' artwork is already attracting international visitors.

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Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports This study examines diachronic trends in stress-related language, sentiment, and lyrical complexity in popular music’s lyrics from 1973 to 2023, exploring how major societal shocks influenced people’s music preferences and offering insights into collective mood management through music. Over 20,000 lyrics of songs in the US Top 100 charts during this period were analyzed using Natural Language Processing techniques, with stress-related language assessed using a dictionary-based approach (LIWC), sentiment estimated via a rule-based sentiment analysis tool (VADER), and complexity via the LZ77 compression algorithm. Our analysis reveals a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity over five decades. Surprisingly, societal shocks like COVID-19 coincided with attenuations rather than amplifications of these trends, indicating a preference for emotion-incongruent music, which may serve as a form of emotion regulation, such as escapism. When controlling for long-term trends, we found no significant relationship between income growth and stress or sentiment in lyrics. In contrast, periods of high-stress language corresponded with increased lyrical complexity. These results support the notion that music plays a dual role in collective mood management, functioning as mood management and regulation, depending on the context and intensity of societal emotions.

Over the past 50 years the lyrics of popular songs in the USA have become simpler, more negative, and contain more stress-related words. The authors suggest that their findings reflect the complex ways people use music to navigate stress: spklr.io/63329BWoqf
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#eeg #neuroscience #research #innovation #brainmapping #healthtech #elderlycare #braincomputerinterface #gtec #gpangolin #ghiamp #gtecsuite2024 #montagecreator #headstageamplifiers #electrodechannels…... The release of g.HIsys Professional includes OSCAR LIVE for artifact removal 😍😍 Artifacts from movements, muscle contractions, eye blinks, and other sources often create large distortions in EEG data,...

The release of g.HIsys Professional includes OSCAR LIVE for artifact removal!

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Topological turning points across the human lifespan - Nature Communications Researchers discovered five phases of brain rewiring across the lifespan. The eras of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, early aging, and late aging each have characteristic rewiring of structural con...

New study maps how brain networks rewire from birth to age 90. Using diffusion MRI and graph theory, the authors reveal four major “turning points” (around 9, 32, 66, and 83) that mark distinct phases of brain organization and shifts in cognition across life.

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NYAS Publications Perceiving musical creativity involves multiple neural mechanisms underlying expectation and prediction error. Using the innovative Bohlen–Pierce Sequencer—a tool requiring no musical training—we fou...

🎶 New paper 🚨: Perceiving Creativity in Novel Musical Sequences: An EEG Study.

Using a sequencer in the non-traditional Bohlen Pierce Scale, we show that perceived creativity correlates with EEG neural synchronization at the note rate and harmonics, and with sequence-level information metrics

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What prevents music psychologists from sharing primary research data?
If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey

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My point is that what often feels “unsayable” in music doesn’t have to be mystical; it’s what happens when our brains use shared systems for pattern, emotion, and expectation to make sense of sound without ever turning it into sentences.

I agree, we are treating music and language as different systems with different objectives and results. However, we also know they partly rely on overlapping brain networks for items like structure, rhythm, and expectation and are empirically grounded in neuroscience.

#kernel #fNIRS #CognitiveNeuroscience

The ‘unsayable’ isn’t metaphysical; it’s neurocognitively grounded.
It’s the domain where feeling, embodiment, and prediction become meaning, without passing through symbolic language.

#MusicCognition #NeuroscienceOfEmotion #PredictiveCoding #Mahler #MusicAndMind

A Comprehensive Guide to Dynamic Causal Modeling in Cognitive Neuroscience Research to infer causal interactions between brain regions. It is a Bayesian framework that uses a generative model to explain observed neural activity.

#DCM #CogntiveNeuroscience #neuroimaging

Frontiers | The role of active music making in fostering resilience Previous studies suggest a positive association between engagement with music and psychological resilience, yet most existing research has focused on specifi...

Findings from this newly-published study make a connection between music-based coping (esp active music making) and resilience in adults, both healthy and those with depression.

#musicscience #musictherapy

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Xaq Pitkow shares his principles for studying cognition in our imperfect brains and bodies Pitkow discusses how evolution's messy constraints shape optimal brain algorithms, from Bayesian inference to ecological affordances.

Xaq Pitkow shares his principles for studying cognition in our imperfect brains and bodies and how evolution’s messy constraints shape optimal brain algorithms, from Bayesian inference to ecological affordances. #cognition #neuroscience

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Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76

Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/a...

NYAS Publications Rhythmic auditory stimulation has been used across cultures to alter consciousness, yet its neural basis remains unclear. Our review suggests that rhythmic sounds induce absorption and relaxation. We....

Rhythmic auditory stimulation, like drumming or binaural beats, can alter consciousness. This review links isochronous rhythms to thalamo-cortical entrainment, resembling psychedelic and psychotic states.

The Beginning of the End for Alzheimer's Disease featuring Michael Yassa - Distinguished Lecture YouTube video by UCI CNLM

Dr. Michael Yassa challenges long-held assumptions about Alzheimer's disease and shares a bold new vision for prevention and treatment rooted in precision medicine.

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Does Anybody Really Know What Time Is? Yes, your brain does. It created it.

The brain tracks time across multiple scales via neural dynamics, enabling mental time travel, a uniquely human capacity to recall the past and simulate future events. Coupled with language and spatial reasoning, this ability shapes cognition, culture, and beliefs in supernatural forces.

Astrocytes sense neuromodulators to orchestrate neuronal activity and shape behavior Astrocytes serve as crucial mediators of neuromodulatory processes previously attributed to direct communication between neurons, four new studies show.

Astrocytes sense neuromodulators to orchestrate neuronal activity and shape behavior

This year’s most powerful scientific experiments, in 14 images The best science isn't just smart – it's stunning. Don't believe us? Well, for 28 years the Wellcome Trust has held an annual photography competition celebrating powerful images that capture health,...

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Imaging cortical layers to understand brain as network organ This spatial scale, bridging cells and brain areas, has been overlooked in human brain research. But advances in fMRI technology are changing that.

Human neuroscience research has largely overlooked this spatial scale—which bridges cells and brain areas. But new advances in functional MRI technology are changing that.

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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity MIT researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brai...

Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
MIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells. news.mit.edu/2025/overloo...