A study of healthy older adults in Switzerland and Germany found that they were able to acquire various musical skills over the course of one year of practice. This finding suggests that musical ...

The effects of music aptitude, sex, handedness, eyedness, and footedness on music achievement and executive skills of elementary instrumental music students was explored. Handedness was defined for ...

Some of us find it challenging to translate written musical notations into auditory signals and/or motor programming. Some cannot tell one tone apart from another. Some struggle with keeping up with ...

I got rhythm, I got … grammar? Children’s ability to distinguish one rhythm from another may be connected to how well they form sentences when they speak, a recent study from Vanderbilt University in ...