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.

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a nearly ubiquitous human experience: you’re walking down the street, or cooking dinner, or writing an email, and you suddenly realize that a snippet of a song is looping in your head. You might ...

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Oct. 8 (UPI) --New research out of Chile suggests kids that play musical instruments, regularly practicing and performing, benefit from improved attention and working memory. For the study, published ...

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 ...

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Anne and Bruce Hunt didn’t expect to be very good singers. After all, the pair had not been part of a singing group in more than 50 years. But Anne Hunt, 82, a retired writer, had recently been ...

Jennifer Hudson doesn’t hold anything back in her take of the classic ballad, “Memory,” in the upcoming Cats movie adaptation of the stage musical. Ahead of the film’s release on Friday, the Oscar ...