Parents have long treated piano recitals and violin lessons as a kind of academic insurance policy, a cultural bet that ...

A partnership program between the UNO School of Music and the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences is studying how music can help Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

Neuroscientists are closing in on a striking idea: some brain cells appear to be tuned specifically to music, firing in ...

Music lessons are less likely to make children smarter and more likely to reveal the curiosity and discipline they already have.

Brain imaging scans show that music engages broader and more diverse neural networks than speech does. Studies have shown music reaches auditory, emotion, motor and memory circuits at the same ...

Creativity is notoriously difficult to study as it unfolds, but musical improvisation offers a rare chance to watch spontaneous idea-generation in action.

But there's little evidence that listening to the whole song will get rid of an earworm. Research suggests that listening to ...

In the first long-term and real-world reflective study of its kind, scientists have uncovered new detrimental health impacts of the artificial sweetener aspartame that echoes those found in shorter ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

When a husband is emotionally exhausted, his after-work habits usually change first. These behaviors can look like distance ...

In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember. This week: Evan Dando ...

Fergal Keane has met thousands of traumatised children while reporting on conflicts. Here, he researches the long-term effect ...