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

But there's little evidence that listening to the whole song will get rid of an earworm. Research suggests that listening to ...

Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and ...

Jenny Cook, the staff music therapist for the Songs by Heart Foundation, engages with a memory care resident on Nov. 4, 2022 at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in Albany, N.Y. Cook helped train ...

Scientists are gradually understanding more about how and when music therapy works. One of the known uses of music in therapy is for Alzheimer’s and dementia therapy, where listening to music can help ...

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 ...

A partnership program between the UNO School of Music and the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences is studying how music can help Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

Knowing every word to classic Christmas songs isn’t just an indicator of your holiday spirit — it can also demonstrate your ...

For many people, music feels like a part of our subconscious. It’s constantly playing in the background, whether we’re at a coffee shop, in the elevator, working from home, or even just walking down ...

It can be hard to avoid the chime of classic Christmas songs at this time of year. Certain songs may even bring up potent memories, transporting a person to a specific moment in the past, like an ...