It’s a nearly ubiquitous human experience: you’re walking down the street, or cooking dinner, or writing an email, and you suddenly realize that a snippet of a song is looping in your head. You might ...

Learning a musical instrument later in life may help keep the brain younger for longer. In a four-year study, older adults ...

Musically trained children tend to display neural dynamics associated with better executive functions and more robust cognitive flexibility; these brain advantages could last a lifetime, new ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Université de Montréal report that extensive musical training can steady the body in space, both with and without guiding sounds, during a blindfolded ...

Musical training involves sustained, multisensory engagement that shapes brain structure and function through adaptive neuroplasticity. Learners acquire precise auditory discrimination, fine motor ...

Music that evokes an emotional response may influence the specificity of memory recall, new research suggests. Investigators found that participants who were shown a series of images of everyday items ...

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The perception and cognitive processing of music engage a complex set of neural mechanisms spanning from primary auditory areas through associative and motor cortices to subcortical structures ...