A new study from the University of Exeter, UK shows that playing an instrument into old age is "associated with significantly better performance in working memory and executive function".
Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin have teamed up to generate and save every possible MIDI melody to a hard drive, claim the copyright, and then release it again to creative commons, essentially making it ‘un-copyrightable.’
New research supports the idea that music all around the globe shares important commonalities, despite many differences. Is music really a "universal language"?
Findings show that musicians and bilinguals require less effort to perform the same task, which could also protect them against cognitive decline and delay the onset of dementia.
A new brain-computer interface application that allows music to be composed by the power of thought has now been developed by scientists.
Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to a new study from Northwestern University. The study is the first to provide biological evidence that lifelong musical experience has an impact on the aging process.
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new method that allows to study how the brain processes different aspects of music, such as rhythm, tonality and timbre (sound color) in a realistic listening situation.
Music is not only able to affect your mood -- listening to particularly happy or sad music can even change the way we perceive the world, according to new research.
