Tag Archives: music

September 30

What Does Music Have to Do with Gender, Anyway?

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There has been a lot of debate regarding gender stereotypes in music, but is there actually any inherent quality of music that makes it gendered?

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June 29

Headbang It Out

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Learn how your favorite rock and roll music could help you process emotions by understanding your brain’s basic responses

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June 22

Sounds Familiar: How music can evoke memories in healthy brains and in cases of neurodegeneration

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This article discusses how sensory cues such as music can evoke autobiographical memories, and examines how music evokes memories differently in people with neurodegenerative diseases.

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March 30

Good Vibrations: Inaudible Sounds Can Increase Dancing

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What is that feeling that we get in our body when we listen to EDM or lower-pitched music in general, and what causes it? It turns out, based on a study by Daniel J. Cameron and others, that it is possible for low-pitched inaudible sounds to directly cause people to move and dance more even though they can’t even hear it. This article further describes this phenomenon and explains the nueroscience behind why we feel music and move more when we listen to low-frequency sounds.

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September 17

Singing in the [B]rain

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Music has always wielded a disconcerting power over me. In times of overwhelming emotions, listening to a sad song or playing Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat on the piano has propelled me into cathartic fits of sobbing. Songs with escalating intensity and complexity (such as San Fermin’s Parasites) have made me feel as if a wave […]

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June 11

Technicalities of the Tingles: The science of sounds that feel good. #ASMR

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“I wanted someone speaking in lightly accented English. And I wanted them talking to me about jewelry, slowly and deliberately.” — Andrea Seigel, This American Life #491: Tribes (aired March 29, 2013) Now that NeuWriteSD’s gender month is over, I thought I’d ease our readers back into the usual routine with a scientifically-stimulating but slightly […]

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