Jazz improvisation is a favorite vehicle for studies — it is a measurable real-world task that allows for divergent thinking.

Musicality aside, all of us (instrumentalists and vocalists alike) derive pleasure from singing along to our favorite tunes, even if it’s only done entirely alone…

LONDON (AP) — Surgeons at King’s College Hospital in London have removed a brain tumor from a woman who played the violin during the procedure. Doctors for violinist Dagmar Turner, 53, mapped her brain before the surgery to identify areas that were active when she played the instrument and those responsible for controlling language and movement. Doctors then woke her …

Many people love to sing. Not everyone can sing well. But what if you could reprogram your brain to help you sing better?

“That phrase just runs through and through your head and you cannot get it out. It occupies their entire field of vision, that sentence.”