For the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that lights up when we hear singing, but not other types of music.

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More information: Camila Bruder et al, Appreciation of singing and speaking voices is highly idiosyncratic, Royal Society Open Science (2024). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.241623 Provided by Max Planck Society ...

The annual All-Day Singing — the event of the year — was coming up. People would be traveling from all over the world, and it would be glorious: hundreds of voices raised in song.