New findings on how the human heart adapts to expressive music features, like loudness or tempo, could lay the foundations for targeted music-based “exercises” to support heart health. Led by King’s College London, the study published in the European Heart Journal: Imaging Methods and Practice suggests that listeners synch their body’s involuntary responses, like heart rate, blood pressure and breathing, to objective arc-like phrase structures found in music.
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