When comparing today’s hit tunes with the top 40 of past decades, strong opinions are never in short supply. Every generation seems to lament its successor’s musical tastes and listening habits.

Finals week is almost here. We know what that means: nights of locking into studies, solving practice problems at the library and the once-in-a-blue-moon breakdown the night before. But the grind ...

Lyrics matter when it comes to choosing music to manage your mood People during the COVID-19 lockdowns turned to music with words that reflected their emotions Top songs contained lyrics dealing with ...

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 ...

It’s no accident that people remember certain events in their lives because of music. Yiren Ren, a psychology researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, and others published a new study that ...

Research suggests that infants who are better at detecting rhythm in music are also better at recognizing patterns in ...

In a recent scientific paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers explored how music's structural features and emotional connotations can evoke ...

Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience , Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my ...

Have you ever gone to a store or a restaurant where the music was so annoying that you walked right out? Now imagine what it must be like for the employees. In a new study, researchers found that when ...