Man listening music and using a phone while sitting on stairs outdoors. Walk into any classroom today, and chances are you’ll see students with earbuds in their pockets or playlists open on their ...

Anita Collins is a visiting fellow at the Music, Mind & Well-being institute at the University of Melbourne. Misty Adoniou receives funding from the ACT Education and Training Directorate to research ...

A background in music helps speakers learn a tonal language, such as Mandarin, a new UB study suggests. People with musical training — whether instrumental or vocal — are better at imitating pitch ...

Last year, officials at the Montour school district in western Pennsylvania approached band director Cyndi Mancini with an idea: How about using artificial intelligence to teach music? Mancini was ...

Most people have trouble focusing when there are distractions, and that will surely impair learning. Learning can be impaired by distracting background sounds. That is why teachers generally encourage ...