Many of us have heard about the practice of playing classical music for pregnant women or infants. But why do we do it? Where did ...

In 1993, three dozen college students filed into a lab in Irvine, Calif., to take part in an unusual experiment. The lead researcher, Frances Rauscher, a red-haired woman in her late 30s and a former ...

Five months after we are conceived, music begins to capture our attention and wire our brains for a lifetime of aural experience. At the other end of life, musical memories can be imprinted on the ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Popular ideas, such as the "Mozart effect"—the idea that listening to classical music improves intelligence—has ...

Over the past fifty years, there have been remarkable claims about the effects of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music. Reports about alleged symptom-alleviating effects of listening to Mozart's Sonata ...

A new comprehensive analysis on the effect of Mozart's music on epilepsy has confirmed that listening to his piano music can reduce the frequency of epilepsy attacks. The results of this comprehensive ...

It's finally here. I've been waiting for this research for a long time. Have you ever heard of the Mozart Effect? The popular (and commercialized) version states that "listening to Mozart makes you ...

Dartmouth researchers are exploring why Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major decreases abnormal epileptic activity in the brain. “There were intermittent reports as well as small studies ...