TORONTO and BEIJING — Anyone who has tried to follow a conversation in a crowded restaurant knows how challenging it can be to pick out words when there’s background noise. For older adults, this ...

It’s a nearly ubiquitous human experience: you’re walking down the street, or cooking dinner, or writing an email, and you suddenly realize that a snippet of a song is looping in your head. You might ...

Musically trained children tend to display neural dynamics associated with better executive functions and more robust cognitive flexibility; these brain advantages could last a lifetime, new ...

Music that evokes an emotional response may influence the specificity of memory recall, new research suggests. Investigators found that participants who were shown a series of images of everyday items ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. How often do you long for a better memory? Well, this neuroscientist ...