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 ...

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 ...

Researchers looked at a connection between how infants process musical rhythm and language. We break it down. Research suggests that infants who are better at detecting rhythm in music are also better ...