You may have heard the claim that listening to classical music makes you smarter. But is this just a myth, or does classical ...

Discover how music influences the brain, from boosting memory and regulating emotions to enhancing cognitive function and ...

In a study published August 9 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports, scientists in China use brainwave measurements and neural imaging techniques to show how Western classical music elicits its ...

Can classical music boost your child's IQ? Some studies suggest that playing music to a baby in the womb, and in early childhood years, helps brain development. Some believe that exposure to music ...

people use two distinct brain networks to anticipate and identify transitions between segments in a piece of music. Musical boundaries, the moments when one section of a composition ends and ...

Daily music interventions significantly improved comfort and sleep transitions in preterm infants without affecting ...

The study, published in the journal Communications Biology, is unusual because it combines classical music and neurophysiology to map the changes that occur in the brain with age. A total of 76 ...

In a Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Nathaniel G. Harnett, Director of the Neurobiology of Affective ...

Is music dumbing down? Yes, comes the answer from thousands of disgruntled music fans of a certain age, who look back fondly ...

Anhedonia-related emotional blunting is linked with abnormally sustained activity in brain areas responsible ... degrees of anhedonia listening to classical music pieces categorized into negative ...

Metacognition, or the awareness of your own thinking and thought processes, is recognized as an important step in cognitive development ... exposing a child to classical music, in the womb ...

Music is used to treat stress, pain and depression and improve cognitive and motor skills. In cases of stroke or other brain ...