Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...

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 ...

Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and ...

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 ...

Have you ever found yourself replaying the same heartbreak anthem over and over, clinging to a song that somehow feels like ...

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 ...

But there's little evidence that listening to the whole song will get rid of an earworm. Research suggests that listening to ...

*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 ...

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.