Experienced musicians tend to possess an advantage in short-term memory for musical patterns and a small advantage for visual ...

Music lessons are sometimes sold as a sort of cognitive training. Put a child in front of a piano, the story goes, and ...

New research from the University of Sheffield and Western Sydney University has found learning to play an instrument can improve older people's ...

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 ...

Your brain and body literally “sync” with music, according to new research. Instead of just understanding rhythm, our neural circuits physically resonate with it—shaping how we feel and move to music.

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, investigated the association between formal music instruction during childhood ...

A new study showed that regularly listening to music, whether its' from Sir Mix A Lot (pictured here) or someone else, is associated with lower likelihoods of cognitive decline and dementia. (Photo by ...

Researchers studying audience members at classical concerts have found that the bodies of listeners displayed "significant" synchronicity in their physical responses to the music. In a study published ...

A new study in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research discusses the prevalence and impact of alcohol references in music using studies acquired from four major databases. Study: The prevalence of ...