A newly published study by Northwestern University researchers suggests that Mom was right when she insisted that you continue music lessons -- even after it was clear that a professional music career ...

A unique University of Southern California study measuring the benefits of musical training is showing orchestra students outperformed children in sports on auditory skill tests. Strong auditory ...

Bilateral stimulation involves the use of visual, auditory, or tactile external stimuli in a rhythmic side-to-side pattern. It is a key component of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR ...

Inherent auditory perception skills influence the effects of music training on speech processing ability, a study suggests. Music training is thought to augment neural encoding of speech in the brain, ...

Music is popular in almost all human societies, but there are some people who just don’t seem to be into it, no matter how stirring. Studying those who don’t like music can provide insight into why ...

From EDM to punk rock, everybody likes music to some extent. This is not just determined by one’s interest — there is a neurological explanation for it. Emily Hurwitz ’21, an undergraduate researcher ...

Increasing the expression of a protein responsible for maintaining neuron health led to better-than-normal processing of auditory information, according to a new study. The findings open the door to ...

“I think there is something wrong with his [her] hearing,” is a comment I often hear from parents of children on the spectrum, pertaining to the atypical auditory processing they notice in their loved ...

From EDM to punk rock, everybody likes music to some extent. This is not just determined by one’s interest — there is a neurological explanation for it. Emily Hurwitz ’21, an undergraduate researcher ...