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 soundtrack of this story begins with a vaguely recognizable and pleasant groove. But if I stop writing and just listen for a second, the music reveals itself completely. In Freddie Hubbard's ...

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 ...

A partnership program between the UNO School of Music and the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences is studying how music can help Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

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 ...

Listening to music immediately after learning new information may help improve memory retention in older adults and individuals with mild Alzheimer’s disease. A new study published in the journal ...

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 ...

December brings fall semester's final exams and some students turn to music to help while they study. But is that a good idea? A September article from University of Maryland Global Campus touts the ...

Memory is complicated. A new study co-authored by Jeopardy! contestant Monica Thieu looks at how two different memory systems might give some people an edge with recalling facts. I'll take episodic ...

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