Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. In a previous column about the stress of working in an “open” office, I suggested that the popular practice ...
Listening to music when you are over 70 years of age has been linked to a 39% reduction in the risk of dementia, according to ...
Jamming out at a concert puts music front and center in a person’s life, but only for a moment. Most of the time, music serves more as sonic wallpaper, spicing up the background while we go about the ...
A new study provides evidence that older adults who frequently engage with music may have a significantly lower risk of ...
It’s no accident that people remember certain events in their lives because of music. Yiren Ren, a psychology researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, and others published a new study that ...
In 2020 an incredible video went viral. It featured a former ballet dancer named Marta Cinta González Saldaña, suffering from severe Alzheimer’s disease in her senior years. In the video, Saldaña ...
As time progresses, people are listening to more and more music. Music now makes its way everywhere — grocery stores, hotel lobbies, restaurants; many play it while they are showering or when they are ...
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