Ever had a song come on the radio and suddenly you're 16 again, sitting in your best friend's car on a summer night? It's wild how a few notes can pull you straight back to a moment you thought you'd ...

Music doesn’t just make you feel—it can shape what you remember and how vividly you recall it. Neuroscience shows that the right emotional response to music can enhance either the gist or the fine ...

Remember singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” with your kindergarten class? That simple melody might be doing more than bringing back fond memories. Research shows those childhood songs lodged deep ...

Music and memory often go hand in hand, bringing the past back to life. But you don't have to hear the song itself. Simply seeing the title, lyrics, or a picture of the artist is enough to launch the ...

Jenny Cook, the staff music therapist for the Songs by Heart Foundation, engages with a memory care resident on Nov. 4, 2022 at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in Albany, N.Y. Cook helped train ...

The relationship between music and memory is powerful. Music evokes powerful emotions that then bring back memories. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that ...

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 ...

Recognition and smiles crawled across the elderly faces as "Oh Susanna" filled the church. The men and women had come by bus from six long-term care residences, and they sat in the pews at Appleton's ...