Hearing just 16 seconds of music helps your brain predict what comes next, shaping memory, emotion, and how songs make sense.

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Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody perception.

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AI tools now generate melodies, master tracks and even mimic classical composers. So I explored the best ones.

Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity ...

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A new study finds that non-musicians' brains are just as good as professionals' at integrating musical context and predicting melodies.

Whether making microtonal pop or playing Renaissance instruments with sheep bones, a crop of bold artists are making genuinely strange music go mainstream – but are they at the mercy of the algorithm?