Research Guide: Music & the Brain

Finding Articles

Try using the following suggested keyword searches in the OneSearch box below.

Music AND “brain development”
Neuroscience AND music AND memory
“Music therapy” AND recovery
“Music education” AND “cognitive development”
Music AND language
Music and preferences AND emotion 

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Background Information

The following books and videos provide background information for beginning research on music and the brain.

• Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
• Online only
• Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Applications
• ML3830. H1965 2011, 4^th Floor
• Music of the Brain [Video]
• Online only
• Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
• Online only
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
• ML3830. S13 2007, 4^th Floor
• Perception and Cognition of Music
• Online only
• This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
• ML3830. L38 2006