In a study published February 5th in PLOS Biology, researchers played piano sonatas by J.S. Bach to sleeping newborns (some ...

In A Nutshell Newborns can predict musical beats within the first two days of life, but show no brain response to melodic patterns 49 sleeping babies listened to Bach piano pieces while scientists ...

Dust off those vinyl records and take a groovy trip back to the sixties! Join us as we count down our picks for those ...

Marchin’ On! I’d guess that a clear majority of JJ readers have at least one recording by at least one of the Heath Brothers – bassist Percy worked with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, ...

Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody ...

For this reason, Martin advised the band to count in their own numbers like they would if they were on stage. The end result ...

He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera ...

Brain scans and signals show babies can sort images and sense rhythm, offering new insight into how infant brains are wired from the start.

Pregnant women react more positively than non-pregnant women when exposed to audio recordings, videos, and images of infants. This suggests that pregnancy mentally prepares women to process infant ...

Following his debut at the 2025 BBC Proms, one-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy talks repertoire, technique and challenging ...