Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...

The songs that played at your wedding, high school summer jams, and other cherished music may provide relief for patients with dementia. Dementia affects more than 57 million people worldwide, and 60 ...

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 ...

In a recent article in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers investigated how the characteristics of music, when played after learning, influenced emotional arousal and memory. Building on these ...

For long-term brain health, older adults might want to carefully consider how they spend their downtime, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of South Australia assessed the ...

New research by UCLA neuroscientists shows that listening to music after an experience or activity can make it more memorable if you have just the right amount of emotional response while listening to ...