The relationship between music and the human brain has fascinated neuroscientists for decades. While meditation has long been celebrated for its cognitive benefits, recent neurological research ...

Researchers are using works by Johann Sebastian Bach, along with MEG and MRI scans, to investigate how the brain compensates for age-related changes. Older people are just as capable as younger ...

Would you like to your brain to keep working at top capacity, especially as you get older? Two new studies both suggest that playing a musical instrument can help. And—good news—you can start at any ...

“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, the part of ...

Listening to music is one of the simplest pleasures in life, but its impact goes far beyond entertainment. Whether it is soft instrumental melodies in the morning, energetic workout playlists or ...

This post is a review of I Heard There Was A Secret Chord: Music As Medicine. By Daniel J. Levitin. W.W. Norton & Co. 405 pp. $32.50. In 1993, Nature magazine reported on a study suggesting that ...

When Amy Richter was a little girl, her father often traveled for work. He often came home bearing gifts of music and record albums. They bonded while poring over all that vinyl, she recalls, ...

In memory research, music is often better than, for example, numbers or text, because it is intuitively memorable. This allows us more easily to discover how the brain processes information over time.