Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Director, Music Cognition Lab; Author, "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
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Music is not a universal language...

Elizabeth Margulis March 4, 2026

but it can bring us together when words fail. Societies, animals and even machines have music in common. Our varied experiences of it might tell us about the origins of language. Read on >

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Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Director, Music Cognition Lab; Author, "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is the director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas and author of "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind" from Oxford University Press.