Research shows personalized music strengthens connection in Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementia, guiding effective music ...

What happens in the brain of someone with dementia when they hear music that means something to them? Researchers from Alzheimer Center Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience mapped ...

“Music altered communication between [brain] regions that process sound and regions involved in regulating stress and arousal ...

The relationship between music and the human brain has fascinated neuroscientists for decades. While meditation has long been celebrated for its cognitive benefits, recent neurological research ...

Walk into a concert hall, and your brain greets the music as something closer to a conversation than a broadcast. A recording plays the same notes every time, but a performer in the room reads the ...

Music affects us so deeply that it can essentially take control of our brain waves and get our bodies moving. Now, neuroscientists at Stanford's Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute are taking advantage of ...

An international study co-authored by McGill psychologist Caroline Palmer suggests our brains and bodies don't just understand music, they physically resonate with it. These discoveries, based on ...

Working seems especially hard in the summer. As I write this, it’s 73 degrees outside without a single cloud. I catch myself staring out the window for minutes at a time, thinking about reading and ...

Dr. Dan Lloyd is a music geek in the most literal sense of the term. He makes musical scores out of brain scans and plays them in a trippy, electro-computer sort of way. He’s a “neuro-philosopher,” or ...

Scientists at University of California Berkeley have recreated a Pink Floyd song using previously recorded brain waves. In the process, they've learned a lot about how the brain processes music. The ...

During conversation, our brains are constantly predicting which word comes next. That ability helps us understand speech in a noisy café, or anticipate a friend’s next sentence. This skill for ...

80% of people listen to music while working, but music is usually made to grab the listener's attention, leading to distraction. This often leads to reduced productivity. For individuals with ADHD or ...