Upbeat songs trigger exciting memories while more mellow tunes evoke recollections of romance and sad times, according to new research. A piece of music's energy level and mood impact the memories it ...

Music and memory often go hand in hand, bringing the past back to life. But you don't have to hear the song itself. Simply seeing the title, lyrics, or a picture of the artist is enough to launch the ...

In March 2008, Kenny Chesney released "Better as a Memory" as the fourth and final single from his 2007 album Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates. The song was written by Scooter Carusoe and Lady Goodman ...

Jenny Cook, the staff music therapist for the Songs by Heart Foundation, engages with a memory care resident on Nov. 4, 2022 at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in Albany, N.Y. Cook helped train ...

The relationship between music and memory is powerful. Music evokes powerful emotions that then bring back memories. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that ...

It's no surprise that the latest song from Violent Femmes, "Memory," feels like a classic. Frontman Gordon Gano actually wrote it a long time ago. "We even recorded it as a demo many years ago," he ...