Music is everywhere—playing in coffee shops, on hold lines, in Ubers, behind YouTube ads, and of course, in your earbuds while you work. It’s so constant, we often treat it like harmless background ...

“Are you multitasking if you’re listening to background music?” This is one of the first questions I usually get after making my conquer cyberoverload presentations. As research consistently shows, ...

Lucy Patston and Lynette Tippett, two scientists at the University of Auckland, set out to investigate whether the brains of musicians process music in the same brain areas where language is processed ...