It happens to the best of us � we�re driving in the car, shopping in the grocery store or cooking dinner in the kitchen and a song comes on that stops us in our tracks, viscerally taking us back ...

Music motivates and inspires and is a powerful and nonthreatening medium and therefore, people with Alzheimer’s react ...

Music can enhance our ability to learn new information and positively alter existing memories, according to two recent studies. The findings could inform music-based interventions for conditions such ...

The relationship between music and memory is powerful. Music evokes powerful emotions that then bring back memories. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that ...

We’ve all heard anecdotes about the “power of music” to reconnect us with moments from our pasts. You may have seen one of several viral YouTube videos of a patient with dementia hearing a piece of ...

Time flows in a continuous stream — yet our memories are divided into separate episodes, all of which become part of our personal narrative. How emotions shape this memory formation process is a ...

Candy Cohn used to always speak with her mother, Lillian Cohn, in English, with a few words here and there in Yiddish. Then one day, Lillian, of Delray Beach, started singing a beautiful Yiddish love ...

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 ...

FILE - Music fans relax during a break in the entertainment at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, Aug. 16, 1969, in Bethel, N.Y. An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August ...

They met up last year at Paradise Cove Beach in Malibu, California: three rock ’n’ roll legends sitting on a blanket at sunset to ponder life. They’d been here before, famously. The Beach Boys shot ...

Nostalgia becomes a shared language, a communal experience that allows us to relive the music with Houstonians who appreciate ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Erin Shi. Buy this photo. It happened when I was sitting in a café on South University ...