Whether you’re working from home or studying for class, sometimes it’s nice to turn on a little music to help you tune out all the noise around you. It can be easy to get distracted if your partner is ...

When you think about the many millions of songs that exist in the world from a combination of just 12 notes, and then consider how deeply and differently all those songs can affect our mood, it's kind ...

Listening to music while carrying out certain tasks (like reading or driving) that require continued attention is common. Research shows that background music improves concentration (Mendes et al., ...

ASHDOD, Israel — Tzur Shoham’s fingers dance across the piano keys as a trumpet’s high notes thread the melody. A light drumbeat rat-tat-tats. The tune is upbeat but its story devastating: The teen ...

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 ...

Ballmann, director of UAB Resistance Exercise Physiology Lab, notes that music has been shown to alter activation of various parts of the nervous system involved in attention, concentration and ...