Apr. 26, 2023 Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that ...
Apr. 25, 2023 Scientists carried out an analysis of hundreds of popular song recordings from 1946 to 2020 to determine the lead vocal to accompaniment ratio, or LAR. The study considered the four highest-ranked ...
Apr. 20, 2023 A recent study on Spotify data reveals which types of music are used to help listeners focus while studying and fall ...
Apr. 17, 2023 Normal aging is associated with progressive cognitive decline. But can we train our brain to delay this process? A team has discovered that practicing and listening to music can alter cognitive ...
Mar. 23, 2023 New research has found that constraints in the way our brains work can shape the way people interact when creating music, influencing its ...
Mar. 22, 2023 While listening to a favorite song is a known mood booster, researchers have discovered that music-listening interventions also can make medicines more ...
Mar. 6, 2023 Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music. Reports about alleged symptom-alleviating effects of listening to Mozart's ...
Jan. 18, 2023 A new study demonstrates the benefits of music education to adolescent health and ...
Dec. 29, 2022 Language function and the psychosocial wellbeing of patients and their families can be promoted with singing-based rehabilitation. Group intervention provides opportunities for peer support while ...
Dec. 2, 2022 A randomized control trial led by psychologists shows the positive effects learning to play music for just a few weeks has on cognitive ...
Nov. 11, 2022 Accurately moving to a musical beat was thought to be a skill innately unique to humans. However, new research now shows that rats also have this ability. The optimal tempo for nodding along was ...
Nov. 7, 2022 To find out how different aspects of music influence the body, researchers turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study. By introducing levels of bass over speakers that were too low to ...
Nov. 2, 2022 Engaging infants with a song provides a ready-made means for supporting social development and interaction, according to a new ...
Oct. 27, 2022 Music and arts classes are often first on the chopping block when schools face tight budgets and pressure to achieve high scores on standardized tests. But it's precisely those classes that can ...
Oct. 25, 2022 A new study played song and movie clips both recent and from their adolescence for subjects and asked if they had memories associated with them. Results showed people had more memories associated ...
Sep. 12, 2022 Researcher-clinicians are conducting a multi-site study to establish that music intervention can reduce the likelihood of critically ill, mechanically ventilated older adults in a hospital intensive ...
Aug. 29, 2022 People with dementia often lose their ability to communicate verbally with loved ones. But a new study shows how that gap can be bridged with a new music intervention. Music memories remain in the ...
Aug. 17, 2022 Researchers have developed a method that employs musical tests and a portable instrument for measuring brain activity to detect cognitive decline in old ...
Aug. 3, 2022 A new study explores the use of music-listening to relieve acute pain, finding that people who were given the impression that they had control over the music they heard experienced more pain relief ...
June 29, 2022 Companies selling ethical and sustainable products should use up-tempo major mode music in their marketing to help well-meaning consumers convert their good intentions into actual purchases, new ...