Sagopa Kajmer’s AI-powered collaboration, brain wave-personalized playlists and international rap breakthroughs are ...

Improvising music could help to improve older people's cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, according to research ...

Zooming in on the auditory cortex, the researchers found three unique sets of neurons that light up while we listen to music. Two sets of neurons encode absolute pitch (individual musical notes) and ...

Music is both a brain and a body experience—illness can impair this experience, while music can be a means to treat illness.

Creativity is notoriously difficult to study as it unfolds, but musical improvisation offers a rare chance to watch spontaneous idea-generation in action.

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

Music lessons are less likely to make children smarter and more likely to reveal the curiosity and discipline they already ...

Though music is proven to speak to all of us, according to experts, there are two different types of listeners: those who ...

A study by the University of Sheffield and the University of Western Sydney has shown that improvising to music can help ...

Steve Heise and Alina Josan make music together by instinct and improvisation, one string at a time. They recently discussed their artistic convergence and the birth of their first album.

Music motivates and inspires and is a powerful and nonthreatening medium and therefore, people with Alzheimer’s react ...

When traffic thickens or a tricky turn appears, many drivers instinctively reach for the volume knob before they touch the ...