This research was conducted by Asal Habibi, B. Rael Cahn, Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio at the University of Southern California, USA.
This study found that children engaged in music training had an enhanced ability to detect changes in pitch and to process sounds, compared with children who were not …
This research was conducted by Kate de Medeiros and Anne Basting at Miami University and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
Effective care for people with dementia is made more challenging by a lack of effective treatments for the condition. Arts interventions are becoming more popular due to their ability to effect …
This research was conducted by Simon P. Landry and François Champoux at the Université de Montréal, Canada.
This study aimed to investigate whether long-term musical training improves unisensory (audio or tactile) and multisensory (audio and tactile) processing capacities. It found that musical training improves ability for both single and multiple …
This research was conducted by Melissa K. Weinberg and Dawn Joseph at Deakin University, Australia
This study found that people who dance to music or attend musical events have higher levels of subjective wellbeing compared to people that do not. Singing with others was also found to be associated …
This research was conducted by R. Scott Hiller at Fairfield University, USA
This paper investigates how four large commercial festivals (Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, Coachella, and Lollapalooza) make their production decisions in order to keep costs low and quality high. The paper found that known quality is important, but so …
This research was conducted by Teppo Särkämö and 12 others from University of Helsinki and universities and research facilities in Finland and Canada
This study explored the impact of listening to different audio stimuli on patients who had suffered from stroke caused by rupture of a major artery in the …
This research was conducted by Ingo Roden, Florian D. Zepf, Gunter Kreutz, Dietmar Grube and Stephan Bongard at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg and two other universities in Germany and Australia
This study attempted to understand how different interventions might reduce the aggressive behaviour of children. A group of primary …
This research was conducted by Karen Burland at the University of Leeds and Stephanie E. Pitts at the University of Sheffield, UK
This study set out to examine audience participation and engagement in a well-established jazz and blues festival held annually in Edinburgh. The festival audience had high expectations of …
This research was carried out by Gail Brand, John Sloboda, Ben Saul and Martin Hathaway at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK
The researchers conducted a pilot study to investigate how the audience-performer relationship contributes to the success of a jazz performance. They arrived at three major findings. …
This research was conducted by Wesley Mendes-Da-Silva and four others at Fundaçao Getulio Vargas Business School and two other universities, Brazil
This paper examined crowdfunded music projects in Brazil, using data from the main crowdfunding site in the country: Catarse. By using an online platform, crowdfunding has the potential to …