New research explores music's impact on learning, memory, and emotions in two studies. One reveals that familiar music can enhance concentration and learning, while the other demonstrates that music ...

Music is known to be therapeutic, but can it boost your memory? Well, it can. A new study found that listening to music can sharpen the brain and also has the potential to improve the lives of people ...

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 ...

The relationship between music and memory is powerful. Music evokes powerful emotions that then bring back memories. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that ...

Neuroscientists have discovered brain cells that form multiple coordinate systems to tell us 'where we are' in a sequence of behaviors. These cells can play out different sequences of actions, just ...

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 ...

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 ...