Music improves mood and memory to such an extent that treatment strategies for diseases like Alzheimer's or dementia sometimes incorporate music. But how music boosts memory remains unclear. In a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists are gradually understanding more about how and when music therapy works. One of the known uses of music in therapy is for Alzheimer’s and dementia therapy, where listening to music can help ...

Jenny Cook, the staff music therapist for the Songs by Heart Foundation, engages with a memory care resident on Nov. 4, 2022 at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in Albany, N.Y. Cook helped train ...

Just a few chords from a song can instantly transport you back to a loved one’s funeral or your graduation day. This demonstrates that music is far more than mere background noise; it serves as a ...

How nostalgia-evoking music helps us stay in touch with our past selves, and retrieve "the good" from "the good old days." ...

Listening to certain songs can trigger some pretty intense memories. Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio You’re walking down a busy street on your way to work. You pass a busker playing a song you haven’t heard ...

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