The drop you feel on the dance floor isn’t just emotional — it’s biological. Experts explain how music syncs with your ...

In 1993, three dozen college students filed into a lab in Irvine, Calif., to take part in an unusual experiment. The lead researcher, Frances Rauscher, a red-haired woman in her late 30s and a former ...

Does listening to music make you smarter? About 30 years ago, Rauscher et al published a study of children in the prestigious journal Nature, showing that just listening to Mozart could increase a ...

Listen: There’s a surprising antidote to feeling stress, pain, loneliness or lack of motivation. It’s called music. Music influences the brain to regulate hormones in a way that can neutralize ...

Music has been central to human cultures for tens of thousands of years, but how our brains perceive it has long been shrouded in mystery. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a precise ...

Magsamen is the Founder and Director of the International Arts + Mind Lab Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University. She is the co-author with Ivy Ross of Your Brain on Art: How ...

Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience , Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my ...

There has been a lot of research on the neuroscience of listening to music. It sometimes seems as if there is a new paper published every day. Recently, researchers in Denmark and the UK thought it ...

Playing music for patients in intensive care units has been found to help lower heart rates and blood pressures, American College of Cardiology researchers say. The findings could improve the health ...