Ever had a song come on the radio and suddenly you're 16 again, sitting in your best friend's car on a summer night? It's wild how a few notes can pull you straight back to a moment you thought you'd ...

Upbeat songs trigger exciting memories while more mellow tunes evoke recollections of romance and sad times, according to new research. A piece of music's energy level and mood impact the memories it ...

Remember singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” with your kindergarten class? That simple melody might be doing more than bringing back fond memories. Research shows those childhood songs lodged deep ...

Spotify’s latest personalised-playlists feature taps in to an unexploited listener emotion: nostalgia for things that haven’t ...

Recognition and smiles crawled across the elderly faces as "Oh Susanna" filled the church. The men and women had come by bus from six long-term care residences, and they sat in the pews at Appleton's ...

Jenny Cook, the staff music therapist for the Songs by Heart Foundation, engages with a memory care resident on Nov. 4, 2022 at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in Albany, N.Y. Cook helped train ...

The relationship between music and memory is powerful. Music evokes powerful emotions that then bring back memories. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that ...

When Laura Nye Falsone’s first child was born in 1996, the Wallflowers album “Bringing Down the Horse” was a big hit. “All I have to hear are the first notes from ‘One Headlight,’ and I am back to ...

We’ve all heard anecdotes about the “power of music” to reconnect us with moments from our pasts. You may have seen one of several viral YouTube videos of a patient with dementia hearing a piece of ...