Schools are under constant pressure to make budget cuts, and music programs are often first on the chopping block. Now, an extensive study from the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that ...

This post initially appeared on the Curriculum Matters blog. Studying music seems to have helped accelerate the cognitive development, and particularly the auditory- and speech and language-processing ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Is science creative or is it rigid, black and white? The answer to that question varies based on the individual's exposure to science. One of the greatest minds in mathematics, Henri Poincare, said ...

What type of music do you use while studying? What type of music would you use to fall asleep at night? Have you ever wondered why you choose certain types of music? It turns out that the music used ...

Researchers have found that students who listen to music while studying are more likely to get higher grades. A total of 2,000 American students recently talked to research company OnePoll about their ...

Several times a week, a group of at-risk youth in Los Angeles reports to makeshift music rooms at Alexandria Elementary School near Koreatown for lessons in violin or cello or bass—and to Saturday ...

Teens’ brains can benefit from learning to make music, according to findings from a new study in Chicago. For more than a decade, Nina Kraus, the director of Northwestern University’s Auditory ...

The University of Pennsylvania's Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Center periodically hosts a retreat for its patients, an escape from the humdrum of treatment. At a retreat in 2013, the ...