Hello, dear readers! Welcome to a bonus letters column. We hope you had a peaceful and enjoyable holiday season and that this new year (how did that happen so soon?) will treat you well. We have some ...

Recent research highlights how classical music can enhance study performance, memory retention, and even social bonding. Studies show that works by composers like Chopin and Beethoven can activate ...

Music plays an important role in everyday life. People use music to express their feelings, regulate their emotions, and interact with others. Research in this domain has shown that music can affect ...

Science and art collide at the Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab’s new Music Row location. It’s apparent in the lab’s co-directors, Reyna Gordon, who studied vocal performance and foreign languages ...

As a child in Jacksonville, Fla., Alex Chern built string instruments out of office supplies and tuned them, stretching rubber bands taut to change their pitch. Starting at age 7, he took violin ...

A new study showed that regularly listening to music, whether its' from Sir Mix A Lot (pictured here) or someone else, is associated with lower likelihoods of cognitive decline and dementia. (Photo by ...

Hello, dear readers! We hope you had a peaceful and enjoyable holiday season and that this new year (how did that happen so soon?) will treat you well. We have some interesting mail, so on to your ...

You may have a playlist carefully curated for an intense workout that mysteriously pushes you through the last set. Or maybe you have a go-to album you reach for when your brain is scattered, ...

Share on Pinterest Both listening to music and drinking coffee may help improve cognition. Willie B. Thomas/Getty Images A new system tracks brain waves to provide a feedback system that may help ...

Are we all imagining the same thing when we listen to music, or are our experiences hopelessly subjective? In other words, is music a truly universal language? To investigate those questions, an ...