The oldest known musical instruments— flutes carved from bones —are over 40,000 years old. And humans were likely making music before that, based on fossils showing our ancestors had the ability to ...

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the conclusion of new work by University of Amsterdam professor of Music Cognition ...

New findings on how the human heart adapts to expressive music features, like loudness or tempo, could lay the foundations for targeted music-based "exercises" to support heart health. Led by King's ...

A rising number of Canadian facilities are using mobile brain scanners to help patients, by offering MRIs mid-surgery in hospital or diagnosing stroke right on the roadside. So what's the future of ...

Music makes people move and groove, often in surprisingly involuntary ways. As it turns out, we even blink in time to the beat, researchers report in PLOS Biology. “Our eyes—which we usually think of ...

Neuroscientists use AI and genetic datasets from 23andMe to map how language develops in the brain, revealing links between rhythm and dyslexia.

People who reported “always” listening to music saw dementia risk plummet by 39% compared to those who rarely or never tuned in. They also had a 17% lower risk of Cognitive Impairment No Dementia ...

, and there it is again - that fragment of a song, looping endlessly with no off switch in sight. Most people know exactly ...

WASHINGTON — "Exercise your brain," experts advise people hoping to stave off dementia. But how? Stretching your brain might be the better description.Do a crossword puzzle a day and you may just get ...

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For most of human existence, listening was closely tied to moments that carried meaning, emotion, or survival.