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

Music has a remarkable ability to evoke powerful memories and emotions. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that moment. Music can act as a direct line to our ...

New research from UC Santa Cruz is finally giving you the go-ahead to sing in the shower as loud as you want. Because, as it turns out, you probably sound pretty darn good. Psychologists wanted to ...

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 ...

The relationship between music and the human brain has fascinated neuroscientists for decades. While meditation has long been celebrated for its cognitive benefits, recent neurological research ...

“Music and Memory” is a short documentary that explores the power of music for treating dementia and other related diseases in the context of memory. Local music therapist, Harry Beckett, has led ...

Several studies have found positive effects of making music. Now, a new research study has looked at the long-term effects of playing an instrument either in high school or beyond, and found that even ...

Psychologists studied 'earworms,' the types of songs that get stuck in your head and play automatically on a loop, to show that highly accurate pitch memory is much more common than might be expected.