A recent study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience provides evidence that listening to live music causes brain waves to synchronize more strongly with musical rhythms ...

New research indicates that children with better rhythmic abilities tend to exhibit a slower, more prolonged rate of brain development in specific regions associated with motor control and emotion.

The human brain operates as a tireless prediction machine. It watches a dropped glass and anticipates the shatter. It listens ...

There's more to music than meets the ear. Researchers trying to understand how the mind comprehends music and the role that cultural familiarity plays in the process have found that exposure to music ...

How do people keep the beat to music? When people listen to songs, slow waves of activity in the brain correspond to the perceived beat so that they can tap their feet, nod their heads, or dance along ...

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 ...

Would you like to your brain to keep working at top capacity, especially as you get older? Two new studies both suggest that playing a musical instrument can help. And—good news—you can start at any ...

A neurologist has revealed one of the "best things for your brain". According to the specialist, this particular pastime is a ...

Lois Svard, a retired Bucknell music professor, recently won the 2024 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award for her first book, “The Musical Brain,” published by Oxford University ...