A global study reveals that our most emotionally resonant music tends to come from our teenage years—typically peaking around ...

A global study reveals why songs from our teenage years leave a lasting emotional and mnemonic imprint on us. This research ...

The music most deeply embedded in our identity usually comes from a specific period in life, particularly our teens.

New research from UC Santa Cruz is finally giving you the go-ahead to sing in the shower as loud as you want. Because, as it turns out, you probably sound pretty darn good. Psychologists wanted to ...

Music has a remarkable ability to evoke powerful memories and emotions. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that moment. Music can act as a direct line to our ...

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Music that evokes an emotional response may influence the specificity of memory recall, new research suggests. Investigators found that participants who were shown a series of images of everyday items ...

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Psychologists studied 'earworms,' the types of songs that get stuck in your head and play automatically on a loop, to show that highly accurate pitch memory is much more common than might be expected.