Why do people buy concert tickets? Maybe they are motivated by the social element. Maybe it’s intellectual or artistic curiosity. Sometimes good old-fashioned boredom is motivation enough. Or maybe — ...

Listening to music while doing something can make that activity more enjoyable. But listening to music after an experience or activity can make it more memorable if you have the optimal emotional ...

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Then, out of the shadows, stepped Simon Callow – the evening’s narrator – to deliver the young Proust’s starstruck account of a grand musical salon at Versailles in 1894. Private and public; spiritual ...

In a recent article in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers investigated how the characteristics of music, when played after learning, influenced emotional arousal and memory. Building on these ...