Music training is good for the brain. Nina Kraus, a prominent brain researcher at Northwestern University, says that "music training leads to changes throughout the auditory system that prime ...

Absolute pitch (AP) – the rare ability to identify or reproduce a musical note without any reference – has long fascinated researchers and musicians alike. Traditionally regarded as a talent inherent ...

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 ...

A recent study published in Psychological Science provides evidence that people naturally absorb the underlying rules of music just by listening to it over their lifetime. The findings suggest that ...

Experienced musicians tend to possess an advantage in short-term memory for musical patterns and a small advantage for visual information, according to a large-scale international study. The research ...

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 ...

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