A recent study published in Psychological Science provides evidence that people naturally absorb the underlying rules of music just by listening to it over their lifetime. The findings suggest that ...

Experienced musicians tend to possess an advantage in short-term memory for musical patterns and a small advantage for visual information, according to a large-scale international study. The research ...

There's more to music than meets the ear. Researchers trying to understand how the mind comprehends music and the role that cultural familiarity plays in the process have found that exposure to music ...