In a recent episode of The Nature & Nurture Podcast, I had the chance to speak with Courtney Hilton, a cognitive scientist and postdoctoral research fellow at The Music Lab of Harvard University, ...

Aniruddh Patel, an expert on music and the brain at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, finds Dunbar’s research unconvincing. If music evolved as a substitute for grooming, he notes, ...

Listening to a Beatles song was a literally unforgettable moment for millions of people throughout the world, new research has found. The Beatles, in June 1967, by which time many of their songs had ...

Love is not the reason why we sing and create symphonies--at least not the primary reason, according to a new evolutionary theory of the origins of music. Love is not the reason why we sing and create ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. - Love is not the reason why we sing and create symphonies--at least not the primary reason, according to a new evolutionary theory of the origins of music. In an article published ...

David Robson, BBC Future feature writer, answers: Who hasn’t ever felt a song pulling at their heartstrings? Whether it is the feeling of euphoria in a club, or a lonely cry to a heartbreaking ballad, ...