What they found: Older musicians displayed more youthful brain activity patterns during speech perception tests compared to ...

Flow, or being “in the zone,” is a state of amped-up creativity, enhanced productivity, and blissful consciousness that, some psychologists believe, is also the secret to happiness. It’s considered ...

A new study from the University of Exeter has found a connection between brain health in old age and playing a musical instrument. The research, published today in the International Journal of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Creative flow involves relaxing one’s focus or conscious control, new study finds. Sean Gladwell/Moment Collection via Getty ...

We're exploring the intersection of music and neuroscience with young musicians who are gifted in both fields! We'll speak with musician-scientists like Zoie, a 15-year-old euphonium player who is ...

Music affects us so deeply that it can essentially take control of our brain waves and get our bodies moving. Now, neuroscientists at Stanford's Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute are taking advantage of ...

We may finally know how the brain processes a beat drop: people use two distinct brain networks to anticipate and identify transitions between segments in a piece of music. Musical boundaries, the ...

Loveland musician John Bunzli would have never guessed a traumatic brain injury would bring him to write a new song every week for five years now. “Is this because my brain is working differently than ...

Flow, or being “in the zone,” is a state of amped-up creativity, enhanced productivity and blissful consciousness that, some psychologists believe, is also the secret to happiness. It’s considered the ...