Marta Espinós, pianist and music curatorCarol Leone, chair of piano studies and professor of piano, SMUWhat do Joaquín Sorolla’s paintings ...

Involuntary musical imagery (IMI), commonly referred to as earworms, is a cognitive phenomenon whereby fragments of music repeat in the mind without deliberate initiation. This experience is both ...

Music listening rarely involves exclusive focus on the sounds themselves. Instead, listeners often experience visual imagery, autobiographical memories, and a feeling of movement (Küssner, 2023).

That one-hit wonder that keeps repeating in your head might be an indication of your ability to sing accurately, according to a UB researcher who co-authored a paper that examined earworms. An earworm ...

To dissect this musical chicken-and-egg problem, researchers played songs that most people had never heard in a 2023 study. The participants heard each song a different number of times.

Objective Playing a sport or a musical instrument is presumed to improve motor ability. One would therefore predict that children who play a sport or music are better at motor imagery tasks, which ...