Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...

A partnership program between the UNO School of Music and the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences is studying how 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 ...

It’s no secret that aging can take a toll on one’s memory. Names, events, and general timelines can all become a bit blurrier over time, even if one isn’t diagnosed with dementia or any other ...

Brain imaging scans show that music engages broader and more diverse neural networks than speech does. Studies have shown music reaches auditory, emotion, motor and memory circuits at the same ...

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 ...

Music training is good for the brain. Nina Kraus, a prominent brain researcher at Northwestern University, says that "music training leads to changes throughout the auditory system that prime ...

British researchers also found the earworms people experience reflect the reasons why those people listen to music. So if ...

Music touches us in ways that little else can. It inspires us to dance, weep, laugh, sing, smile. Last weekend, I was studying for my psychology midterm when the song “Banana Pancakes” by Jack Johnson ...

A recent UCLA study reveals that music can enhance memory, particularly detail-oriented recall, when paired with moderate emotional arousal. The research suggests that music's influence on the ...