Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings ...

From lullabies to first dances, shared music shapes attachment, lowers stress, and strengthens emotional bonds across a ...

Rediscovering long forgotten music does not mean recovering how it was meant to be performed, and that is a major challenge for the arts, finds a new study from the University of Surrey. An expert has ...

People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of ...