Just a few chords from a song can instantly transport you back to a loved one’s funeral or your graduation day. This demonstrates that music is far more than mere background noise; it serves as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve all heard anecdotes about the “power of music” to reconnect us with moments from our pasts. You may have seen one of several viral YouTube videos of a patient with dementia hearing a piece of ...

From Phish concerts to Alanis Morissette shows, throwback tours can take us back to our teen years. By Holly Burns In September, I went to see Counting Crows, a band whose music formed the soundtrack ...

The huge, international appeal of Wordle has inspired a range of similar online games. Heardle is one particularly successful spinoff, targeted at music lovers. The Heardle app selects one song per ...