We’re advancing innovation in sound health
Our aim is to understand how sound patterns can improve the brain, behavior, and health, translating to personalized medicine and health for people around the globe.
Our research collaborators and partners:
We believe our research and innovation can lead to a cultural shift, whereby music is understood to be a sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic tool, and not just simple form of entertainment.
OUR INNOVATIONS AND ADVANCES
We’ve mapped audio environments to neurodiversity and mental health.
We leveraged a massive one-of-a-kind database that included people’s neurodivesre and mental healths statuses along with their preferential reactions to auditory environments.
We performed advanced machine learning and AI techniques to understand the patterns between human reactions to sound configurations in audio with neurodiversity and mental health.
We built SNaP, an AI-based tool that can accurately screen for people’s neurodiverse and mental health conditions.
We’ve mapped the dimensionality of audio
We’ve taken the plethora of attributes that exist in western music and organized them based on their dimensionality. Our research has also shown that computers and AI are just as good as humans in mapping these attributes.
Key References:
Greenberg, D. M., Kosinski, M.C, Stillwell, D. J., Monteiro, B. L., Levitin, D. J., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2016). The song is you: Preferences for musical attribute dimensions reflects personality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(6), 597-605.
Fricke, K. R., Greenberg, D. M., Rentfrow, P. J., & Herzberg, P. Y. (2019). Measuring musical preferences from listening behavior: Data from one million people and 200,000 songs. Psychology of Music, 49(3), 371-381.
Greenberg, D. M., Matz, S., Schwartz, H. A., & Fricke, K. R. (2020). The self-congruity effect of music. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 121(1), 137–150.
Basiński, K., Zdun-Ryżewska, A., Greenberg, D. M., & Majkowicz, M. (2021). Preferred musical attribute dimensions underlie individual differences in music-induced analgesia. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-8.
We’ve mapped the impact of music on the brain
We’ve mapped the impact that different sound patterns have on the brain. This includes mapping the differences in the uses and affects of music across different cognitive and neurological types. We’ve also mapped what happens in the brain when people make music together compared to when they listen to on their own.
Key References:
Greenberg, D. M., Kosinski, M.C, Stillwell, D. J., Monteiro, B. L., Levitin, D. J., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2016). The song is you: Preferences for musical attribute dimensions reflects personality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(6), 597-605.
We’ve mapped audio preferences worldwide
We’ve mapped the uses and affects of music around the world. This includes the links between personal preferences and human traits. Our findings have identified the features in music that are culturally universal and those that are variant.
Key References:
Greenberg, D. M., Wride, S. J., Snowden, D. A., Spathis, D., Potter, J., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2022). Universals and variations in musical preferences: A study of preferential reactions to Western music in 53 countries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(2), 286–309.
Nave, G., Minxha, J., Greenberg, D. M., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D. J., Rentfrow, P. J. (2018). Musical preferences predict personality: Evidence from active listening and Facebook likes. Psychological Science, 29(7), 1145-1158.
OUR DATA AND TEAM HAS CONTRIBUTED TO MANY STUDIES
Eight Studies Completed
We’ve contributed to eight studies across the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and music. This includes the largest study to date on autism (PNAS), the largest study to date music across cultures (JPSP), and the largest study to date on the development of empathy (PNAS).