People who listened to happy music scored higher on the tests for divergent thinking, but not on convergent thinking.
They included the ability to 'think outside the box', also known as divergent thinking, or the ability to 'connect the dots', known as convergent thinking.
" In their paper, published in the journal Current Biology, the scientists wrote: 'The striking correspondence between dogs' and humans' hemispheric biases reported here may reflect convergent evolution if dogs have been selected to respond to human vocal signals during domestication.