Nat Rev Neurosci May 2022 PMID 35352057

Music in the brain.

Peter Vuust, Ole A Heggli, Karl J Friston, Morten L Kringelbach

Mentions

69
Peak: 4 in Jul 2022
across 6 sources since Mar 2022

Extended reach

35,513
potential audience

Total likes

140

Video views

951

Mentions per month

Mar 2022 – Oct 2025

Where it's discussed

  • News24 articles
  • Bluesky19 posts
  • X / Twitter18 posts
  • Facebook4 posts
  • YouTube2 videos
  • Reddit2 posts

AI synopsis

What people are saying

Overall, the discussions demonstrate strong interest and agreement, illustrated by examples like mentions of recent research on predictive coding in music perception and personal anecdotes about music's effects. The tone varies from scientific references to casual reflections, reflecting a genuine fascination with how music influences brain activity and emotions.

AgreementModerate agreement

Most discussions express positive views and support for the findings about music's impact on the brain, highlighting its emotional and cognitive influence.

InterestHigh interest

Posts show high curiosity and enthusiasm, with many referencing specific studies, events, or personal connections to the subject of music and neuroscience.

EngagementModerate engagement

While some posts delve into detailed discussions of research, methods, or sharing related events, many are more casual or personal, so the overall engagement is moderate.

ImpactModerate impact

The discussions suggest that the topic resonates with many, influencing their views on music’s role in brain function, but without implying groundbreaking societal change.

Abstract in brief

  • Music is a universal part of human culture that influences both our emotions and physical responses, and learning to play music changes our brain's structure and functions.
  • Traditional studies focused on how the brain perceives music passively, but newer research highlights that actively predicting what will happen next in music engages brain areas involved in action, emotion, and learning.
  • Understanding music perception through the lens of prediction helps explain individual expertise and group music-making, offering insights into human creativity and the emotional significance of music from a neuroscience perspective.

Top posts

Most liked on X and Bluesky
Krzysztof Basiński
@kbas.bsky.social · Bluesky

Excited to announce a new study from my time at the Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, now available on bioRxiv! Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #EEG #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Apr 30, 2025 · 18 likes · 6 shares View post →
Tatsuya Daikoku (大黒達也)
@TatsuyaDaikoku · X

なんと.これは隅から隅まで読まねば https://t.co/1UC5X760mW

Mar 30, 2022 · 16 likes · 2,145 followers View post →
Neuroscience and music
@rineuron.bsky.social · Bluesky

Vuust, P et al doi: 10.1038/s41583-022-00578-5. Epub 2022 Mar 29. Music in the brain Review of the cognitive neuroscience literature of music perception. Music perception, action, emotion & learning all rest on the human brain's fundamental capacity for prediction. #neuroskyence

Mar 30, 2025 · 14 likes · 4 shares View post →
CLaE
@claeneuro.bsky.social · Bluesky

Nature Reviews Neuroscience Music in the brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mar 13, 2024 · 10 likes · 6 shares View post →
Zombie 2 2(Updates)
@earvlikes.bsky.social · Bluesky

no surprise, a tim-head that has no real sense of value of what the buff brings to the show guess too much grain water and bad music in the brain

Nov 16, 2024 · 10 likes View post →
Sound Health Network
@SoundHealthNet · X

"What makes music meaningful from a neurosceintific perspective?" This study, Music in the Brain, recognizes past passive listening paradigms while looking at current music processing that involves active brain structures like action and emotion. https://t.co/qUSZJ9TOBe https://t.co/K72550zMHm

Jul 11, 2022 · 9 likes · 4 shares · 800 followers View post →

All mentions

Drew
@DrewPSYCHUIS · X

This week we learned about the impact that music has on the brain, how it activates various parts of brain while bringing out emotion and motivation. Below is an interesting article I found on the impact of music in the brain. https://t.co/PRADTz2Wpj #uispsyofmusic

Oct 19, 2025 View post →
Williams Aondoaver
@WilliamsAo51393 · X

I was dancing the music in the brain

Sep 7, 2025 · 1 like · 6 followers View post →
Eko
@whippedbutch · X

I speak best in lyrics. Cant have a conversation without music in the brain.

Aug 28, 2025 · 5 likes · 36 followers View post →
crystalclownery.bsky.social
@crystalclownery.bsky.social · Bluesky

my brain hasn’t been in the right headspace to get proper horny but this is the kind of thing that’s just ambient elevator music in the brain for me

Aug 10, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Cecilie Brask Starsetz
@ceciliebrask.bsky.social · Bluesky

Sydhavns Salonen “Den store tone” Fredag 15/8 kl.19:30 Karens Minde Kulturhus med forfatter Fine Gråbøl, Absalon String Quartet , kunstneren Skjold Rambow og forsker Bjørn Petersen fra “Music in the Brain”. Bliv badet i klang og lyst på med ord…  
Entré: 155 kr. inklusiv gebyr

Jul 26, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Accademico
@_Accademico_ · X

Uno studio di UniBa e Center for Music in the Brain dell’Aarhus University su interazione tra musica e movimento nei consumatori di eroina e cocaina https://t.co/o03hKZjWuz via @_Accademico_ @unibait

Jul 14, 2025 · 39 followers View post →
tenuretracker.info
@tenuretracker.bsky.social · Bluesky

Aarhus University is hiring: Postdoc at Center for music in the Brain

Jun 25, 2025 View post →
enistoja eni, 10% spookier
@enistoja.bsky.social · Bluesky

backstreet boys music in the brain

May 28, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Krzysztof Basiński
@kbas.bsky.social · Bluesky

Excited to announce a new study from my time at the Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, now available on bioRxiv! Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #EEG #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Apr 30, 2025 · 18 likes · 6 shares View post →
caisa ederyd
@caisasoze.bsky.social · Bluesky

I senaste Paradiso har Petter Hallén upplevt CC Hennix drones. Och jag har kopplat upp mig till Peter Vuust på Center for Music in the Brain! Stort tack till Elektroniskt i P2 och spec Mats Almegård vars intervju med Hennix fått ta plats i P3. sverigesradio.se/play/avsnitt...

Apr 16, 2025 · 1 share View post →
Amytiville Hoyrror
@amyhoy.bsky.social · Bluesky

me when my husband is explaining his astrophotography to me i know regular photography, quite technically. doesn’t matter. automatic hold music in the brain

Apr 3, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Neuroscience and music
@rineuron.bsky.social · Bluesky

Vuust, P et al doi: 10.1038/s41583-022-00578-5. Epub 2022 Mar 29. Music in the brain Review of the cognitive neuroscience literature of music perception. Music perception, action, emotion & learning all rest on the human brain's fundamental capacity for prediction. #neuroskyence

Mar 30, 2025 · 14 likes · 4 shares View post →
aussieinterest.bsky.social
@aussieinterest.bsky.social · Bluesky

They played Immigrant Song 1st up. Half the crowd had not heard it b4. We drove down from Canberra. Cannot remember the drive back. Just a blur of music in the brain.

Jan 29, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Theme to Immodesty Blaise (aka Robert)
@mcswagger.bsky.social · Bluesky

Hi, it's your resident "has too much music in the brain". Hit me for one!

Jan 28, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Zombie 2 2(Updates)
@earvlikes.bsky.social · Bluesky

no surprise, a tim-head that has no real sense of value of what the buff brings to the show guess too much grain water and bad music in the brain

Nov 16, 2024 · 10 likes View post →
Silvia Genovese
@silviagenovese.bsky.social · Bluesky

Hello! For my PhD at the Center for Music in the Brain we are conducting an online survey on music for sleep.

Nov 12, 2024 · 2 likes · 2 shares View post →
Victor Pando-Naude
@pandonaude.bsky.social · Bluesky

So thrilled to share our new paper published @Nature Communications Frontoparietal network topology as a neural marker of musical perceptual abilities Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus CFIN/MindLab Aarhus Universitet Find the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nov 11, 2024 · 4 likes · 1 share View post →
silk
@moefaa.bsky.social · Bluesky

alien stage music in the brain

Nov 4, 2024 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
BOO-Petrified Skeleton
@mu-peter.bsky.social · Bluesky

May 27, 2024 · 5 likes · 2 shares View post →
CLaE
@claeneuro.bsky.social · Bluesky

Nature Reviews Neuroscience Music in the brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mar 13, 2024 · 10 likes · 6 shares View post →
Victor Pando-Naude
@pandonaude.bsky.social · Bluesky

New protocol out! We are conducting a Cochrane review on the effect of rhythmic auditory stimulation for Parkinson’s at the Center for Music in the Brain, @aarhusuni.bsky.social Thanks to co-authors @kiravibe.bsky.social, @ErikJohnsen, and @PeterVuust www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Mar 8, 2024 · 6 likes · 2 shares View post →
CLaE
@claeneuro.bsky.social · Bluesky

Nature Reviews Neuroscience Music in the brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nov 6, 2023 · 5 likes · 1 share View post →
Isabela
@isabelagranic.bsky.social · Bluesky

I prefer singular focus too! This is a deliberate practice to probe/prompt interesting emergent feelings or thoughts. McGichrist agrees that music is whole brain, like all things to some extent. If you’re a musician, much more so. I love reading about the details of music in the brain/mind✨

Apr 17, 2023 · 1 like · 1 share View post →
Ana Mena
@menaa_to · X

RT @YolandaColo: Repasando los artículos sobre la música y sus efectos en el sistema nervioso. @Juanayaojeda revisa algunas de las novedade…

Dec 15, 2022 · 3 shares · 505 followers View post →
Fundación AISSE
@fundaisse · X

RT @YolandaColo: Repasando los artículos sobre la música y sus efectos en el sistema nervioso. @Juanayaojeda revisa algunas de las novedade…

Dec 15, 2022 · 3 shares · 953 followers View post →
Paula Iglesias
@Paula_igr · X

RT @YolandaColo: Repasando los artículos sobre la música y sus efectos en el sistema nervioso. @Juanayaojeda revisa algunas de las novedade…

Dec 15, 2022 · 3 shares · 692 followers View post →
Yolanda Colodro
@YolandaColo · X

Repasando los artículos sobre la música y sus efectos en el sistema nervioso. @Juanayaojeda revisa algunas de las novedades de este año: El primero de ellos este https://t.co/4jUvErvO17 #AISSEconCIENCIA22 de @fundaisse en @clinicogranada

Dec 15, 2022 · 4 likes · 3 shares · 1,262 followers View post →
DrRPalmquist
@DrPalmquist · X

Music in the brain - PubMed https://t.co/jUVLmcDOpZ

Sep 24, 2022 · 1 like · 3,170 followers View post →
Mai Tanaka
@MaiAndResearch · X

39. @PVuust, @oleadrian, Friston & @HedoniaResearch. 2022. Music in the brain https://t.co/HX3W7HrPMD A review on the literature on music perception and predictive coding of music #100papers

Aug 17, 2022 · 55 followers View post →
Sophia Geisser
@SophiaGeisser · X

RT @SoundHealthNet: "What makes music meaningful from a neurosceintific perspective?" This study, Music in the Brain, recognizes past pas…

Aug 1, 2022 · 4 shares · 10 followers View post →
PetrovskyLab
@PetrovskyLab · X

RT @SoundHealthNet: "What makes music meaningful from a neurosceintific perspective?" This study, Music in the Brain, recognizes past pas…

Jul 18, 2022 · 4 shares · 121 followers View post →
Singing for Health Network
@NetworkSinging · X

RT @SoundHealthNet: "What makes music meaningful from a neurosceintific perspective?" This study, Music in the Brain, recognizes past pas…

Jul 12, 2022 · 4 shares · 1,163 followers View post →
Emancipatory Sciences Lab
@EmancipatoryLab · X

RT @SoundHealthNet: "What makes music meaningful from a neurosceintific perspective?" This study, Music in the Brain, recognizes past pas…

Jul 12, 2022 · 4 shares · 1,122 followers View post →
Sound Health Network
@SoundHealthNet · X

"What makes music meaningful from a neurosceintific perspective?" This study, Music in the Brain, recognizes past passive listening paradigms while looking at current music processing that involves active brain structures like action and emotion. https://t.co/qUSZJ9TOBe https://t.co/K72550zMHm

Jul 11, 2022 · 9 likes · 4 shares · 800 followers View post →
Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine
@jhmusicmedicine · X

Apr 26, 2022 · 4 likes · 291 followers View post →
Tatsuya Daikoku (大黒達也)
@TatsuyaDaikoku · X

なんと.これは隅から隅まで読まねば https://t.co/1UC5X760mW

Mar 30, 2022 · 16 likes · 2,145 followers View post →
Oxford Psychiatry
@OxPsychiatry · X

Music in the brain https://t.co/omrvlcUrJa

Mar 30, 2022 · 2 likes · 22,071 followers View post →