We May Not be Good at Recognizing Love Songs

But Good at Dance and Lullabies

Saptashwa Bhattacharyya
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readSep 17, 2023

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Do you know what love is? (Photo Credit: Alireza Attari, Unsplash)

A recent study by Yale researchers revealed that we humans are pretty good at recognizing a musical theme across different languages and cultures, except love songs.

The research, published in a recent issue of Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), one of the most reputed journals, was based on…

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