For students taking (online and take-home) exams this month, a new study reveals a possible way to improve memory recall: Listening to music while studying — and having that same music playing during ...

These days music is often sound floating in the background rather than a focus. There's a playlist for everything: cooking, meditation, running outdoors, running indoors, even ironing. Among the most ...

Finals week is almost here. We know what that means: nights of locking into studies, solving practice problems at the library and the once-in-a-blue-moon breakdown the night before. But the grind ...

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 ...

The study concluded that the students who did listen to music during their tests took the test at a faster pace and answered more questions correctly. Although the study claims that test scores were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A research team from Monash University in Australia looked at data from more than 10,800 adults over the age of 70 and found that those who listened to music most days experienced a 39% lower ...