Schools are under constant pressure to make budget cuts, and music programs are often first on the chopping block. Now, an extensive study from the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that ...

Researchers have found that piano lessons have a specific effect on kindergartners' ability to distinguish different pitches, which translates into an improvement in discriminating between words. Many ...

After completing the first study of its kind, researchers have discovered that very early musical training benefits children even before they can walk or talk. They found that one-year-old babies who ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. “Our study shows that the common idea that ‘music makes children smarter’ is incorrect,” says Giovanni Sala, the lead ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2004, a paper appeared in the journal Psychological Science, titled “Music Lessons Enhance IQ.” The author, composer and University of Toronto ...

Playing a musical instrument as a child might have mental benefits later in life, a new study suggests. The study, published in the journal Psychology and Aging, found that musicians do marginally ...

If your parents forced you to practice your scales by saying it would "build character," they were onto something. The Washington Post reports that one of the largest scientific studies into music's ...