A newborn cannot speak, read, or walk. Yet moments after entering the world, the infant brain already responds to rhythm and ...

Harmonious chord progressions strengthen neural activity in social brain regions during face-to-face interaction, promoting ...

A new driving study suggests some fast-tempo songs by Taylor Swift and other artists could affect driver behavior, leading to ...

Researchers used smartphone tracking to study how people listen to music in the real world. They found that natural listening ...

After a first-of-its-kind study highlighted serious and endemic mental health challenges facing people in the music industry, ...

A recent study revealed the benefits of listening to music for only 24 minutes, saying it may significantly reduce ...

The oldest known musical instruments— flutes carved from bones —are over 40,000 years old. And humans were likely making music before that, based on fossils showing our ancestors had the ability to ...

Making music is a mental workout. The brain must simultaneously co-ordinate sound and vision, as well as fine motor control, ...

New research by Smithsonian scientists suggests that preferences for certain sounds might be evolutionarily conserved ...

New findings on how the human heart adapts to expressive music features, like loudness or tempo, could lay the foundations for targeted music-based "exercises" to support heart health. Led by King's ...

When neuroscientist and musician AZA Allsop discovered research by his Yale colleague Joy Hirsch about how group drumming and ...

Surprising research conducted by Harvard Medical School suggests the release of major music albums may coincide with an ...