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 ...

Listening to music immediately after learning new information may help improve memory retention in older adults and ...

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 ...

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 ...

People have long known that music can trigger powerful recollections, but now a brain-scan study has revealed where this happens in our noggins. The part of the brain known as the medial pre-frontal ...

Music is the universal language. Or, to be more precise, a universal awakener. On the passing of Tony Bennett, it is good to remember that he was still performing well into his nineties and after a ...

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 ...