Lack of joy from music linked to brain disconnection

Published: 4 January 2017

Have you ever met someone who just wasn’t into music? They may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five per cent of the population....

Don’t scan so close to me

Published: 15 August 2016

What does the 1960s Beatles hit “Girl” have in common with Astor Piazzolla’s evocative tango composition “Libertango”?...

$17 Million to shape the future of music

Published: 3 June 2016

​McGill Newsroom  This significant investment of public and private support will redefine the future of music research in Canada by transforming the way musicians compose, listen and perform music.

Scientists create a new way to categorize music

Published: 10 May 2016

A team of scientists from McGill University, the University of Cambridge, and Stanford Graduate School of Business developed a new method of coding and categorizing music. They found that people’s...

Find a partner who marches to the beat of your own drum

Published: 9 February 2016

By Cynthia Lee Newsroom Everyone marches to the beat of their own drum: From walking to talking to producing music, different people’s movements occur at different speeds.

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