A newborn cannot speak, read, or walk. Yet moments after entering the world, the infant brain already responds to rhythm and ...

A new study has found that learning to play a musical instrument could be the secret to keeping our brains young. Scientists connected to the new study also shared a second benefit: They found that ...

Researchers used smartphone tracking to study how people listen to music in the real world. They found that natural listening habits, especially the lyrics of chosen songs, provide evidence of a ...

Cognitive scientist Henkjan Honing has published a peer-reviewed essay in Current Biology that pulls together two decades of ...

Singing or playing music is a fun and rewarding hobby. But did you know that being musical could actually help your brain age in a healthy way? That’s according to a study from experts at the ...

There are plenty of musical families, and research has suggested that musical abilities have a genetic component. Now a study has tested the musical abilities of infants who are too young to have been ...

Everyone can relate to the experience of feeling a chill reverberate across their body upon listening to a favorite song. We know listening to music can provoke strong sensations of pleasure and prior ...