Listening to music while doing something can make that activity more enjoyable. But listening to music after an experience or ...

A new study reveals that listening to music immediately after an experience can enhance memory—if the emotional response is just right.

Researchers used music to elicit different emotions, then looked at how shifts in emotion influenced participants’ memory formation.

New research explores music's impact on learning, memory, and emotions in two studies. One reveals that familiar music can enhance concentration and learning, while the other demonstrates ...

That’s where earworms came in handy. Because earworms are a type of musical memory experience that happens involuntarily, the UC Santa Cruz team decided to use them to test whether pitch memory was ...

Classical music was used in these exercises because "it's a type of music that falls between relaxing and arousing, and has proven to be the most effective for enhancing memory".

So the music we listened to when we were in our teens and early 20s tends to stick with us and evoke strong memories when we hear it again, said Kelly Jakubowski, an associate professor of music ...