Instru(mental)
Want to scientifically improve your life with music? Every episode of Instru(mental) explores music psychology research and how it shapes your brain, your body, and how you feel. Thoughtful, practical suggestions for integrating music into your life. Hosted by board-certified music therapist, Brea Murakami.
Instru(mental)
Latest Episodes
#20 - This Is Your Musical Brain On Marijuana
Have you ever noticed that music just hits differently when your high? In this episode of Instru(mental), we're diving into the surprisingly sparse, but curious body of research that explains how cannabis changes our musical experiences. Along ...
#19 - Split Second Music Judgments
What can we deduce from hearing less than 1 second of music? Learn how accurately listeners can identify music genres from excerpts that are less than a quarter of a second long, and see how your brain does in a mini version of the experimental...
#18 - Music as Moral Evidence
Can music change our moral judgments of others? In this episode, we explore how knowing about someone's, or something's, musicality shifts our moral decision-making. This episode's research study includes four related experiments involving musi...