From an evolutionary standpoint, we’re still not sure whether our brains evolved specifically to process music, or music happened to make use of neural pathways that had developed for other reasons.

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Researchers attempted to answer that question by sitting 30 people, aged 18 to 80, in a comfy chair, one at a time, with noise-cancelling headphones on. On a desk in front of them was a slider, on ...

Stuart Greenbaum has been the recipient of funding from The Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Classical music means more than one thing and explanation is in order. Sometimes I make ...