Playing along with the Mozart effect. If you want music to sharpen your senses, boost your ability to focus and perhaps even improve your memory, you need to be a participant, not just a listener.

When you think about the many millions of songs that exist in the world from a combination of just 12 notes, and then consider how deeply and differently all those songs can affect our mood, it's kind ...

Music by Mozart has been shown to have an antiepileptic effect on the brain and could potentially represent a treatment to prevent epileptic seizures, according to researchers headed by a team at the ...

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 2005--Scientists have discredited claims that listening to classical music enhances intelligence, yet this so-called "Mozart Effect" has actually exploded ...

In 1993, three dozen college students filed into a lab in Irvine, Calif., to take part in an unusual experiment. The lead researcher, Frances Rauscher, a red-haired woman in her late 30s and a former ...

Five months after we are conceived, music begins to capture our attention and wire our brains for a lifetime of aural experience. At the other end of life, musical memories can be imprinted on the ...

“Music is the medicine of the mind.” That is what American soldier and politician John A. Logan (1826–1886) once said. I kind of agree with it. Being a classically trained mezzosoprano, I know from ...

For decades, headlines have claimed that Mozart’s music has all kinds of amazing effects on people’s behaviour and performance. But once you look closer at the different studies behind those headlines ...

Can listening to music while preparing a presentation or doing homework help you concentrate? One expert, Alexander Pantelyat, an assistant professor of neurology and the co-founder and co-director of ...

Don Campbell, the author who convinced millions around the world that listening to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart makes you smarter, died Saturday at 65 in Colorado, his publicist told the ...

To study whether Johan Sebastian Bach music has a lowering effect on resting energy expenditure (REE) similar to that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart music. Three REE measurements were performed in each of ...