Remember singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” with your kindergarten class? That simple melody might be doing more than bringing back fond memories. Research shows those childhood songs lodged deep ...

You hear a song once, and hours later you're still humming the same chorus. These catchy tunes—known as "earworms"—are incredibly common, and researchers say they're the result of the way our brains ...

New research from UC Santa Cruz is finally giving you the go-ahead to sing in the shower as loud as you want. Because, as it turns out, you probably sound pretty darn good. Psychologists wanted to ...

Maintaining mental sharpness in today’s fast-paced world is more crucial than ever. With the increasing demands on our cognitive abilities, people seek practical solutions to enhance their memory and ...

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 ...

Music improves mood and memory to such an extent that treatment strategies for diseases like Alzheimer's or dementia sometimes incorporate music. But how music boosts memory remains unclear. In a new ...

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 ...

Jenny Cook, the staff music therapist for the Songs by Heart Foundation, engages with a memory care resident on Nov. 4, 2022 at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in Albany, N.Y. Cook helped train ...

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 ...

Listening to certain songs can trigger some pretty intense memories. Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio You’re walking down a busy street on your way to work. You pass a busker playing a song you haven’t heard ...