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Being the leader of the research team at the University of Alberta, Lisa Hartling experiments with how music affects levels of pain. The team conducted with 42 children in the pediatric ER: half given music to listen to while getting an IV, the rest given no music. Hartling reports that there were less pain after the procedure for the kids that had listened to music than the kids that had not. She hopes to continue this research, testing with different types of music or other distractions to help lower pain during medical procedures.

As a pharmacist, Catherine Ulbricht studied different types of music and its therapeutic effects. There are scientific evidences that support that music influences mood and helps with stress. 5 conditions for which music therapy has good evidence for are autism, dementia, depression, infant development, and sleep quality. However, music shouldn't be listened to at high volumes nor should be a sole treatment for dangerous medical/psychiatric conditions; therefore, safety should be taken into account.

Music can have extraordinary affects on the human brain. Looking in on "ear worms" (meaning getting a song stuck in your head), research reveals that what's going on is neural circuits getting stuck in a repeating loop, playing the thing repeatedly in the head. It is also found that, in the process of human evolution, the structures that respond to music in the brain were first to evolve than the structures that respond to language. Further research also looked into the brain's response to musical pleasure, and animals' response to beats.

As the title suggests, this article discussed how music can affect the choices someone makes. This idea came from an experiment where a group of people listened to music similar to the beginning of the Simpson's theme song (a triton) which is where the notes are spread out and longer. The other group of people listened to music similar to twinkle twinkle (a set of fifths) which is when the notes are consecutive and shorter. After both groups listened to their selected music they were asked to take a grocery list and divide the items on the list into groups. The results showed that the group that listed to the triton music made more inclusive or broader groups whereas the group of people that listened to the fifths were more detailed and had less inclusive groups. After discussing the initial experiment the paper moved on to talk about a new/ developing theory in the field of psychology called construal level theory. This theory states that there is a direct link between how far things are and how people interpret them. Then what scientist have done is make a correlation between the construal level theory and the initial experiment discussed in the passage. Scientists say certain types of music certainly do evoke certain emotions; so, the same can be said for how echoing tones can cause one to interpret things broadly whereas consistent tones can cause one to interpret things more specifically.

The relationship between music and neuroscience involved many research teams, one coming from the Rotman Research Institute in Canada. For this project, the team arranged a group of 19 volunteers, each given short song excerpts (all familiar with the style). While the participants listened, the brains, being scanned by MRI, highlighted one region: the nucleus accumbens, responsible for the sensation of pleasant surprise. However, this only works when the style is recognized.

This article explains about the same experiment that WHY YOUR BRAIN LOVES MUSIC-TELEGRAPH does. See summary for that article.