Knowtex

Musical notes on neurosciences.

Composer Philip Glass talks with Emory's Rosemary Magee in a Creativity Conversation (January 26, 2009) while he was in Atlanta for the local premiere of his opera "Akhnaten."

In a series of studies, Rentfrow, Gosling and their colleagues show that musical tastes powerfully predict people's personalities... By analysing the preferences of almost two thousand people, they found four major dimensions along which musical tastes vary

From Pythagoras to the anatomy of the ear, Hart uses her signature playful hand-illustrations to reveal how simple mathematical ratios make pleasing melodies.

A selection of the best of the best of OWNI's weekly round-up of data on the web, from a year that's seen so many wonderful, innovative, inventive, colorful, moving and funny data projects.

Piano practicing fine tunes the brain circuitries that temporally bind signals from our senses. Over the years pianists develop a particularly acute sense of the temporal correlation between the movements of the piano keys and the sound of the notes played.

New research in psychology suggests that our favorite popular songs contain more messages about sex and reproduction than do less-favored songs. Is our evolved psyche at work here? Commentator Barbara J. King considers the evidence.

Neurologists believe they are coming closer to understanding how people with severe amnesia are able to retain the ability to play music.

This study replicates the findings of a recent study (Chamorro-Premuzic, Gomà-i-Freixanet, Furnham, & Muro, 2009) on the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and everyday uses of music or people's motives for listening to music.

How does music affect our ability to perform tasks at work? And does this depend on the kind of person we are? A recent study by a team from University College London sheds more light on this topic.