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University of Toronto Scarborough News ➚
‘An Itsy Bitsy Audience’: Babies find live music more engaging
In the Media, LIVELab Updates, MIMM Updates, Research

Brighter World ➚
Want to fire up the dance floor? Play low-frequency bass
In the Media, LIVELab Updates, MIMM Updates, Research

Enhance Life with Music Podcast ➚
What makes a lullaby a lullaby, and what difference does it make? with Laurel Trainor, PhD
In the Media, LIVELab Updates, MIMM Updates


The Hamilton Spectator ➚
Artist Chisato Minamimura Brings ‘Scored in Silence’ and Special Vibratory Technology to McMaster’s LIVELab
In the Media, LIVELab Updates, MIMM Updates

POV Hamilton Podcast ➚
Ep. 20 - McMaster University LIVELab featuring Dr. Laurel Trainor
In the Media, LIVELab Updates, MIMM Updates
Science Long Reads ➚
TECHNOLOGY UNLOCKS THE MYSTERY OF OUR MUSICAL MINDS By Kaleigh Rogers
In the Media, LIVELab Updates, MIMM Updates


Showcasing Graduate Research in 60 Seconds or Less
MIMM Updates

Music beats beeps: Researchers find redesigned medical alarms can better alert staff and improve patient experience
Changing the tune of hospital medical devices could improve public health, according to researchers at McMaster University and Vanderbilt University. “By simply changing the sounds . . .

At the LIVELab, technology unlocks the mystery of our musical minds
It’s a 600-square-metre concrete box with floating walls and floors balanced on rubber discs. Massive two-metre-wide vents circulate air without a sound. The room is . . .

High-tech concert hall measures brain waves and heart rates during performances
Laurel Trainor is a professor of psychology, neuroscience and behaviour, and Dan J. Bosnyak is a research scientist and technical director of the LIVELab. This article is . . .

Researchers use the “science of sway” to examine how musicians communicate non-verbally during performance
A team of researchers from McMaster University has discovered a new technique to examine how musicians intuitively coordinate with one another during a performance, silently . . .