Learning to play a musical instrument can change your brain, with a U.S. review finding music training can lead to improved speech and foreign language skills. Although it has been suggested in the ...

Whether Bach, Beethoven, or Mozart, it's widely recognized that classical music can affect a person's mood. In a study published August 9 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports, scientists in China ...

Ever heard just a snippet of a song and instantly known what comes next? Or picked up the rhythm of a chorus after just a few notes? New research from the Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus ...

Music can also help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, which, in up to 95% of cases, can be driven by nongenetic ...

The power of music to heal—or at the least, promote well-being—is acknowledged in many cultures. But only in the past two decades have the medical and scientific communities joined together in an ...

In a recent study, the researchers asked about a hundred 15-year-olds to listen to a piece of music while their brain was scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which shows which ...

In a video that’s racked up over 845,000 views, @thedymejackson shares her experiment results after a week of listening exclusively to Baroque and instrumental classical music. She begins, “So here’s ...

Does listening to music make you smarter? About 30 years ago, Rauscher et al published a study of children in the prestigious journal Nature, showing that just listening to Mozart could increase a ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that the brain cannot learn simultaneously through both classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In fact, the brain actively prevents the ...