Paralyzed punk rocker uses brain implants to create music by thinking about toe movements, turning neural signals into guitar riffs for his band Siggy.

New research reveals how older adults tap into hidden brain reserves, using auditory regions to compensate for memory decline during music recognition. Study: Age-related neural changes underlying ...

Making music is a mental workout. The brain must simultaneously co-ordinate sound and vision, as well as fine motor control, focus and imagination. Over time this stretches the brain like a muscle.

Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful. Galen Buckwalter didn’t hesitate to get a craniotomy in 2024 as part of a ...

A diving accident at age 16 left Buckwalter paralyzed from the chest down. In 2024, he enrolled in a Caltech brain-computer interface study and underwent a ...

Ever hit play on a song that gives you goosebumps? That spine-tingling sensation when the music hits just right? Scientists have figured out how to make those moments happen more often, and the ...

Music perception research bridges the gap between sensory neuroscience and the study of complex social behaviours. Recent advances have highlighted that ...

Before language, there was sound. Before logic, there was rhythm. And before we understand what someone is saying, our nervous system is already listening—sorting the frequencies, decoding the ...