Music forges powerful connections with memory in the brain, something that could be used to help people experiencing cognitive impairment. It also broadcasts our personalities to one another ...

Exploring 'Your Brain on Music' Author Daniel Levitin wrote about how the brain responds to sound in This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. He spoke with Farai Chideya ...

Music lights up almost every area of the brain, which shouldn’t be a surprise since it makes people tap their feet, encourages the recollection of vivid memories and has the potential to lighten ...

It's a "great time for music and brain research" because more people are well-trained and skilled at conducting rigorous experiments, according to Levitin. Emerging research reveals challenges.

Music can be helpful in the treatment of emotional and neurological disorders including stroke, Parkinson’s disease, brain injuries, and dementias (Speranza, L. et al. 2021).

“Music can change the world because it can change people.” —Bono The brain adapts. What isn’t used is lost, and what’s used constantly is bolstered. If a finger or entire limb is removed ...

When listening to music, your brain makes certain predictions about what comes next in the melody, harmony or rhythm. Whether those predictions are met or not then determines how you respond to it.

This Review examines recent studies showing that music modulates activity in core brain structures involved in the processing of emotion. The ability of music to change activity in these ...

The comparative study of music and language is drawing an increasing amount of research interest. Like language, music is a human universal involving perceptually discrete elements organized into ...