Listening to music is quite common in our daily life. The most common motive for listening to music is to influence emotions. How does listening to music produce emotions and pleasure in listeners?

Music is known to evoke emotions through a range of mechanisms. A new study gives insights into the way positive emotional reactions can be triggered by music and pictures. We all have experiences of ...

Music has long been described, anecdotally, as a universal language. This may not be entirely true, but we're one step closer to understanding why humans are so deeply affected by certain melodies and ...

Emotion regulation is the ability to effectively manage and respond to an emotional experience. It typically involves a choice of emotions, when to have them, and how to express them (Gross, 2014).

Would they be the same ones you’d pick for an album cover or music video for the heavy metal band Metallica? Probably not. For years, my collaborators and I have been studying music-to-color ...