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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The study’s authors recruited 90 healthy participants between the ages of 18-86 who were exiting the Newfoundland Symphony ...

Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but not always in the way you might expect. A new study takes a close look at ...

Psychologists studied 'earworms,' the types of songs that get stuck in your head and play automatically on a loop, to show that highly accurate pitch memory is much more common than might be expected.

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The ability to remember and recognize a musical theme does not seem to be affected by age, unlike many other forms of memory. “You’ll hear anecdotes all the time of how people with severe Alzheimer’s ...

It’s a nearly ubiquitous human experience: you’re walking down the street, or cooking dinner, or writing an email, and you suddenly realize that a snippet of a song is looping in your head. You might ...

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 ...

Following the success of Hooked on Music, the Music Cognition Group at the University of Amsterdam presents a new game: TuneTwins. Inspired by the classic Memory game, TuneTwins invites you to match ...

As you navigate through the chaos of life, balancing meetings, errands, and endless notifications, forgetfulness often becomes a regular visitor. But what if the key to boosting your memory was as ...