"Wicked'"s “For Good” stays with us long after the final note. The Broadway and movie duet is a neuroscience lesson in memory ...

Just a few chords from a song can instantly transport you back to a loved one’s funeral or your graduation day. This demonstrates that music is far more than mere background noise; it serves as a ...

A University of Brighton design graduate has created a music box for dementia sufferers that is filled with RFID-embedded objects that, when moved to certain spots, prompt related musical tracks. The ...

First research linking the phenomena of ‘earworms’ and music-evoked memory Authors hope research could eventually aid in treatment of people with memory loss So, no one told you life was going to be ...

The upbeat song “Sweet Caroline” often prompts listeners to sing and dance. But when music therapist Alaine Reschke-Hernández played the song for an older person, the song evoked a sad 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 ...

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 ...

It can be hard to avoid the chime of classic Christmas songs at this time of year. Certain songs may even bring up potent memories, transporting a person to a specific moment in the past, like an ...

People have long known that music can trigger powerful recollections, but now a brain-scan study has revealed where this happens in our noggins. The part of the brain known as the medial pre-frontal ...

Songs take you back in time, and also to places. Migrant workers from Purvanchal (East UP and Bihar) can barely function without Kumar Sanu crooning in the background ...