Neurological illness can be devastating. One disease that affects the brain is stroke, occurring when the blood supply to the brain in blocked and often resulting in speech, motor or memory impairment ...

Music and rhythm therapy are gentle ways to help babies who can't talk yet develop their senses, emotions, and brains. This ...

Life begins with music. The human body provides the basic musical elements for the soundtrack to fetal development. The rhythmic pulsing of mom’s heartbeat, the rise and fall of her footsteps, the ...

The extraordinary global reach of jazz was on full display Friday in the performance of the Zawinul Syndicate at Catalina Bar & Grill. Start with the group’s leader, Viennese-born keyboardist Josef ...

Researchers have demonstrated that two to three day old babies can detect the beat in music. This phenomenon - termed 'beat induction' - is likely to have contributed to music's origin. It enables ...

Conceptual priming studies have shown that listening to musical primes triggers semantic activation. The present study further investigated with a free semantic evocation task, 1) how rhythmic vs.