This research was conducted by Kuo-En Chang and five other people at National Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
This paper reports an experiment where 135 college students were observed in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The students were divided into three groups. One group …
This research was conducted by Björn Vickhoff and eight others at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and five other organisations.
This paper describes a study that showed how group singing affected the heart rate of 15 healthy 18 year olds in Sweden. They all spent five minutes humming, five minutes …
This research was conducted by Gene D. Cohen and five others at George Washington University and other institutions, USA
This paper reports the results of a study into the effects of a cultural programme on the physical and mental health of the elderly. The research is based on a study …
This research was conducted by Alexandra Parbery-Clark, Samira Anderson, Emily Hittner, and Nina Kraus at Northwestern University, USA
As people age their brains become slower in processing sound. Musical training is known to strengthen the ability of people’s brains to process sound and so the paper reports the results of …
This research was conducted by Glenn Schellenberg at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada
The researchers randomly assigned 144 six year old Canadian children to one of four groups: one received music tuition for the keyboard, another got voice coaching using the Kodaly method, and (by way of contrast) …
This research was conducted by Sara Houston and Ashley McGill at the University of Roehampton, UK
This paper reports the results of a 12 week programme for people suffering from Parkinson’s Disease run by English National Ballet. The researchers observed how people responded to the sessions, conducting tests for balance, …
This research was conducted by Lars Olov Bygren and seven others at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden and elsewhere
The paper reports the results of an experiment in which 101 people were randomly assigned to either engage in an arts experience or do nothing artistic at all. The types of …
This research was conducted by Gunter Kreutz, Stephan Bongard, Sonja Rohrmann, Volker Hodapp, and Dorothee Grebe at Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany [Now at the University of Oldenburg, Germany]
The research compared the levels of immunoglobulin A (S-IgA), cortisol and emotional states of people after they had participated in …
This research was conducted by David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano at the New School for Social Research, USA
This paper reports the results of five experiments designed to test whether reading literary fiction can improve people’s theory of mind. People with an effective theory of mind have an emotional …
This research was conducted by Helga Noice, Tony Noice and Graham Staines at Elmhurst College, Indiana State University and National Development and Research Institutes, USA
This paper reports an experiment to investigate the benefits of an acting programme on the cognitive functioning and quality of life for elderly people in …