News Stories relating to "music"

Music plays a part in our evolution (as well as climate change!), because learning to play a musical instrument changes the brain in ways that lead to improved learning and understanding of language.

In LiveScience.com, Rachael Rettner reports that musicians have larger areas in the parts of the brain that are important for playing a...

Teaching stroke victims who have lost the ability to speak to sing again can "rewire" their brains so they can speak again as well. And music isn't just important for the old: Neuroscientists now think that music training should start in kindergarten and go through high school, because music helps shape the sensory system (this is at a time...

Things got pretty nasty during the 2008 Presidential campaign, but researchers have discovered a way for everybody to "be nice" during future campaigns and political rallies. It has to do with the music: they shouldn't sing patriotic songs, they should sing children's songs instead.

It's really math - Philosophers have been biting their nails over this question for hundreds of years. Musicians and mathematicians don't seem to have much in common, but scholars have suspected for centuries that the mysterious force that shapes the melodies that catch the ear is nothing other than math?geometry, to be precise...

There may be a music center in the brain, but even though you have one, it doesn't necessarily mean you can hit a note when you sing. If you can't sing or play the guitar, it may be comforting to know that rock stars tend to die young.

In LiveScience.com, Ben Mauk writes that there may be a music center in the brain, although researchers...

Three years ago, we reported that the secret of the famous Stradivarius and Guarneri violins that were produced in Cremona, Italy in the 18th century was basically a result of global warming. These violins are still prized by musicians today, and modern violin-makers have never been able to duplicate their beautiful sound.

Newswise - A music professor has discovered that playing music has apositive effect on the health of premature infants,inspiring them to take more food and grow faster. Preemiesneed to put on weight as quickly as possible, so that theirlungs mature enough for them to be able to breathe on theirown. This is reminiscent of...

In the film "Amadeus," actor Tom Hulce played Mozart as atwitchy character who was sometimes out of control. Now a TVdocumentary in the U.K. suggests that Mozart had theobsessive compulsive disorder called Tourette's syndrome.

British composer James McConnel, who also has Tourette's,has made a film called "What Made Mozart Tic?"...

The "Mozart Effect" refers to the fact that listening to Mozart?but not any other music?has been shown to improve learning and memory. Now scientists have found that Mozart's music actually changes the connections between brain cells.

Emily Singer writes in New Scientist that neuroscientist Fran Rauscher discovered the Effect in 1993,...