Have you ever wondered why it's easier to remember music you heard decades ago compared to what you had for breakfast last week? "Music is remarkably resistant to forgetting," says Steffen Herff, ...

I think of music in terms of the memories I hold for different songs. So when I got to thinking about this past year in music, my mind didn’t go so much to the analysis and ratings of the music I ...

Yiren Ren receives funding from the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University. Have you ever noticed how a particular song can bring back a ...

When you listen to music, it’s not just your ears doing the work. Your brain’s emotion and memory centres, like the hippocampus, which helps store and retrieve memories, and the amygdala, the hub for ...

At least once a week, and usually more often than that, Eugene chorister Amy Adams sings for a special audience. Some listen from sofas. Others recline in wheelchairs. A few dance up and down the ...

In a new study, high-energy, less acoustic songs evoked personal memories featuring amusement and excitement, while lower-energy, more acoustic songs evoked memories characterized by calmness, romance ...

Colin and Sophie Hortman were guest DJs on The Current for almost an hour Wednesday morning to celebrate their late parents' memory through music. The siblings created a playlist of songs that Melissa ...