Music doesn’t just make you feel—it can shape what you remember and how vividly you recall it. Neuroscience shows that the right emotional response to music can enhance either the gist or the fine ...

New research explores music's impact on learning, memory, and emotions in two studies. One reveals that familiar music can enhance concentration and learning, while the other demonstrates that music ...

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 ...

Songs help them not feel alone,” says Dr. Ayelet Dassa, a music therapist and researcher at Bar-Ilan University. When ...

Scientists are gradually understanding more about how and when music therapy works. One of the known uses of music in therapy is for Alzheimer’s and dementia therapy, where listening to music can help ...

Research shows that a song’s energy and acoustic qualities can shape the emotions and vividness of the memories it evokes. High-energy tracks often bring back exciting, social moments, while mellow, ...

Have you ever noticed how a particular song can bring back a flood of memories? People often think of these musical memories as fixed snapshots of the past. But recent research by my team at the ...

When I was in veterinary medical school, I could often be found lounging in the fraternity living room listening to jazz records. My classmates were stunned that I was wasting so much time, when most ...

Rekha Thirumlai is the founder of Sing For Smiles, a student-led nonprofit with a home base at C. G. Woodson High School. The group volunteers at local retirement homes and memory care centers, ...

Gosh, I wish I liked Father’s Day like so many others do. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the love. It’s not that I don’t treasure the handmade cards from my children when they were young—or now, the ...