Some people who want to mentally concentrate in public places without distractions from background noise - be it on a gripping new novel, their own thoughts, or whatever - put on headphones and listen ...

Whether you're working the floor at a retail store or sifting through papers at a desk, a new study suggests you may want to start paying more attention to the music that's playing in the background — ...

“Brain” by alaspoorwho is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. A new study from the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry suggests that listening to music regularly can decrease the risk of dementia.

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 ...

Reducing the risk of a life-altering neurodegenerative disease by almost half sounds like it should require some sort of miraculous medicinal intervention, but an increasing number of scientific ...

For long-term brain health, older adults might want to carefully consider how they spend their downtime, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of South Australia assessed the ...