Musicians Have A Biological Advantage When It Comes To Emotions In Sounds

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 13:07 in Psychology & Sociology

In a study in the latest issue of European Journal of Neuroscience, an interdisciplinary Northwestern research team says they have found biological evidence that musical training enhances an individual's ability to recognize emotion in sound.  The study found that the more years of musical experience musicians possessed and the earlier the age they began their music studies also increased their nervous systems' abilities to process emotion in sound. read more

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