Open the Youtube video Think of your favorite song. Maybe it brings you happiness or joy; maybe it makes you want to start ...

Improvising music could help to improve older people's cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, according to research ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised ...

Dame Judi Dench recently celebrated her 91st birthday and impressed everyone by reciting several Shakespearean soliloquies from memory.

Scientists have discovered that your ability to perfectly recall the complete lyrics to childhood Christmas carols—including ...

Music motivates and inspires and is a powerful and nonthreatening medium and therefore, people with Alzheimer’s react ...

When you listen to music, many brain regions fire up to help you analyze the sound and make sense of the emotions you feel in ...

Music is both a brain and a body experience—illness can impair this experience, while music can be a means to treat illness.

I know therapists use music to get through to people with Alzheimer’s disease who don’t really connect with anything else anymore. I just saw on the news that music might also help protect your ...

Q I know therapists use music to get through to people with Alzheimer's disease who don't really connect with anything else ...

Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders.

Learn more about the science behind the belief that we can “see” better while driving when we turn the music down.