Making music is a mental workout. The brain must simultaneously co-ordinate sound and vision, as well as fine motor control, ...

Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but not always in the way you might expect. A new study takes a close look at ...

Music that evokes an emotional response may influence the specificity of memory recall, new research suggests. Investigators found that participants who were shown a series of images of everyday items ...

It’s no accident that people remember certain events in their lives because of music. Yiren Ren, a psychology researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, and others published a new study that ...

December brings fall semester's final exams and some students turn to music to help while they study. But is that a good idea? A September article from University of Maryland Global Campus touts the ...

The soundtrack of this story begins with a vaguely recognizable and pleasant groove. But if I stop writing and just listen for a second, the music reveals itself completely. In Freddie Hubbard’s ...

A new study that suggests listening to or playing music could slash the risk of dementia might have you singing a new tune. Adults over 70 who regularly listen to music were nearly 40% less likely to ...

A new global study led by the University of Jyväskylä reveals that our most emotionally resonant music tends to come from our teenage years—peaking around age 17. This pronounced pattern, known as the ...

IN 2026. 645 NOW WE ALL HAVE THOSE SONGS WE GREW UP LOVING THAT EACH TIME YOU HEAR AGAIN AND AGAIN THE MEMORIES, THEY START TO JUST FLOOD BACK FOR. SOME, MUSIC CAN BRING BACK THOSE MEMORIES. EVEN WHEN ...

Whether the music is orchestral, rock, country, or jazz, most seniors like to listen to some kind of music. Music can soothe or energize, make us happy or sad, but the kind we like to hear does ...