Why does the music that to some people is lovely, even transcendent, sound to others like a lot of noise? Researchers at the University of Melbourne attribute to the amount of pleasure we take in ...

Neural correlates of the often-powerful emotional responses to music are poorly understood. Here we used positron emission tomography to examine cerebral blood flow (CBF) changes related to affective ...

The opening track of Black Sabbath’s self-titled 1970 album launches off with a jarring tritone, a reverberating note that, when combined with a young Ozzy Osbourne‘s atonal vocals, helped to spark a ...