Given the lack of effective treatments to counteract cognitive impairment, background music has traditionally been proposed as a possible therapeutic alternative for improving memory-related tasks. Its effect has long been ...
Apr 25, 2023
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Did you set a New Year's resolution to kick a bad habit, only to find yourself falling back into old patterns? You're not alone. In fact, research suggests up to 40% of our daily actions are habits—automatic routines we ...
Mar 15, 2023
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We know whether or not we like a song after listening to it for only a few seconds, shows a study by a team of psychology researchers. Its findings, which offer new insights into cognitive processing, reveal music perception ...
Feb 9, 2023
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Visitors to MIT's AgeLab in the Center for Transportation and Logistics are greeted silently by a shiny mannequin in a jumpsuit and chunky red goggles, standing a little ominously in a glass-walled studio. While the mannequin ...
Jan 23, 2023
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A new study has identified several characteristics typical of music associated with sleep, such as being quieter and slower than other music. However, popular sleep music playlists on Spotify also include faster, louder, ...
Jan 18, 2023
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People with autism are often portrayed in popular media as experiencing difficulty processing highly stimulating or overly loud environments. While this is certainly true for many, there can be a wide diversity in the ways ...
Nov 7, 2022
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Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccination rate in the Black community lagged well behind that of whites, a gap many in the media speculated was the result of fears based on historical health-related injustices like ...
Oct 28, 2022
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Having sex less often during the transition to menopause is not associated with an increased risk of developing pain with intercourse, according to a new study published recently by the Obstetrics and Gynecology journal.
Jul 7, 2022
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Income, educational attainment, and political ideology all play into racial disparities in vaccination rates that have left African Americans more vulnerable to COVID-19, finds new research from the Center for Health Information ...
Aug 11, 2021
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More than 50 years ago, George Miller, president of the American Psychological Association, urged his colleagues "to give psychology away." No, cynical reader, he was not instructing his followers to abandon the field. Rather ...
May 4, 2021
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