For students taking (online and take-home) exams this month, a new study reveals a possible way to improve memory recall: Listening to music while studying — and having that same music playing during ...

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 ...

You've probably heard that classical music is good for studying, taking tests and doing creative work. This idea stems from the "Mozart Effect," a term coined in 1993 when scientists discovered that ...

Regularly listening to music is linked to a lower risk of developing dementia, according to a new study. In the study, published in October, researchers looked at data spanning a decade and involving ...

Older people who listen to music often slash their risk of dementia by more than a third, according to a new study. Researchers found that listening to or playing music at the age of 70 and older is ...

Most people know intuitively that music can be a good way to pump yourself up or get the creative juices flowing — and a new study brings some scientific evidence to the connection. It finds that ...

If there seems to be an air of pretension among aficionados of jazz and classical music, psychological research is giving them good reason. A new study published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences ...