UCLA psychologists used music to manipulate emotions of volunteers and found the dynamics of their emotions molded otherwise neutral experiences into memorable events. The tug of war between ...

Music sometimes rewinds time. The moment a song I used to listen to plays, a landscape I thought I had forgotten suddenly ...

Popular music includes countless love songs, and also a surprising number of songs about romantic breakups. Another category of songs has gone unnoticed: anti-breakup songs, with one or both partners ...

Some songs provoke an emotional response because of the way the brain is involved while perceiving music. In fact, music directly influences brain regions involved in emotional regulation, memory, and ...

The study highlights how individual differences, such as age, personality, and cultural orientation shape musical emotions, and songs that matter to us tend to evoke more complex emotions. A new study ...

How does the human brain track emotions and support transitions between these emotions? In a new eNeuro paper, Matthew Sachs and colleagues, from Columbia University, used music and an advanced ...

New research from Michigan State University finds that popular music has gradually become less explicit about emotion and ...

Music can heal you in many ways, but nothing comes close to the salve of sad songs when you’re at your lowest. Imagine Emma, who comes home after a long and stressful day at work, dealing with tight ...

A new study of the Turku PET Center in Finland has shown that music evokes similar emotions and bodily sensations around the world. Music can be felt directly in the body. When we hear our favorite ...

Time flows in a continuous stream—yet our memories are divided into separate episodes, all of which become part of our personal narrative. How emotions shape this memory formation process is a mystery ...