It’s no accident that people remember certain events in their lives because of music. Yiren Ren, a psychology researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, and others published a new study that ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. In a previous column about the stress of working in an “open” office, I suggested that the popular practice ...

Jamming out at a concert puts music front and center in a person’s life, but only for a moment. Most of the time, music serves more as sonic wallpaper, spicing up the background while we go about the ...

Whether it’s lo-fi beats or classic rock, music plays a big role in how people get through the workday. A new CivicScience survey finds that, excluding those who answered “does not apply,” 38% of U.S.

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 ...

When sitting face-to-face in conversation with someone—a friend, child, partner, or work colleague—how frequently are you actually thinking about nothing else other than the words that are coming out ...

Listening to music when you are over 70 years of age has been linked to a 39% reduction in the risk of dementia, according to ...