Neurotech Overhears Songs from Listener’s Brainwaves

Ever had a song stuck in your head? New research from a team of neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley maps out regions of the human brain that make earworms—and music perception more broadly—possible.

The research results, recently published in the journal PLOS Biology, show how human brains respond to a musical performance. After our ears hear a song snippet, it gets converted into neuronal activity by our cochlea, the spiral cavity of the inner ear. Ludovic …

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