Built on popular singing, language-driven vocal coordination, and stage voice development, the studio expands a ...

Music lessons are sometimes sold as a sort of cognitive training. Put a child in front of a piano, the story goes, and they’ll get smarter. Mainstream news headlines have helped fuel the belief, ...

Stuttering is more than just struggling to "get the words out." It's a developmental disorder affecting speech fluency caused ...

Musical people find it easier to focus their attention on the right sounds in noisy environments. Being able to focus on a conversation in a room full of noise is a complex task for the brain. In the ...

Parents have long treated piano recitals and violin lessons as a kind of academic insurance policy, a cultural bet that practicing scales today will mean higher test scores tomorrow. Psychologists are ...

Music perception and training constitute a multidisciplinary field that explores the intricate interplay between acoustic signals, neural processing and experiential learning. At its core, the study ...

For many, music study is intrinsically rewarding, and music learning is an end in itself. However, active engagement with music has enduring cognitive benefits, such as concentration, memory, ...

In a previous Psychology Today blog post, "Musical Training Optimizes Brain Function," I wrote about a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience which reported that playing an instrument before ...