New research from UC Santa Cruz is finally giving you the go-ahead to sing in the shower as loud as you want. Because, as it turns out, you probably sound pretty darn good. Psychologists wanted to ...

Music has a remarkable ability to evoke powerful memories and emotions. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that moment. Music can act as a direct line to our ...

Nelson Dellis went from knowing zero Taylor Swift songs to memorizing her entire catalog and can now identify any track in ...

November is Alzheimer's awareness month; therefore, I decided to write something optimistic and uplifting about dealing with this grim illness. It needs to be mentioned that Alzheimer's is the most ...

Researchers say regularly engaging with music — whether singing, playing or simply listening — may help keep your mind sharp ...

*An earlier version of the text misidentified the Clarence Care Center's location. “Music and Memory” is a short documentary that explores the power of music for treating dementia and other related ...

Older adults who regularly listen to or play music may significantly lower their risk of dementia, according to a study of more than 10,800 people over age 70.

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 ...

Can you guess the 1979 song from just one lyric? The year 1979 marked a turning point in pop music, standing at the intersection of the ...

Psychologists studied 'earworms,' the types of songs that get stuck in your head and play automatically on a loop, to show that highly accurate pitch memory is much more common than might be expected.