Those saxophone lessons in second grade may still come in handy. Learning might come easier to those who understand music, according to Professor Emeritus Olin Parker, who teaches the Psychology of ...

Would Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance or Debussy's Clair de Lune have sounded the same if the composers had been born in different countries? Probably not, according to researchers who have found that ...

A sense of rhythm is a uniquely human characteristic. Music cognition scientists discovered that the sense of rhythm – also known as the beat – is so fundamental to humans that we recognize patterns ...

Folk music is in Laura Marling’s blood. The English singer-songwriter’s mother taught music and her father, a guitarist, ran a recording studio and introduced her to his instrument in her first few ...

Hands of a child learning about patterns of size and color with colorful wooden blocks. Source: myboys/Shutterstock Part of what makes us human is the need for our brains to search for meaning. Good ...

Study reveals that rats showed sensitivity to track harmonic and temporal patterns in music and such sensitivities might be shared across species Are humans the only ones who recognize musical ...

Seventy years ago in Chicago the name Carpenter stood for everything which could be used aboard a ship from marline-spikes to anchors. Lake shippers used to congregate by the dozen in George Carpenter ...