Research analyst Allison Aaron and Assistant Professor Reyna Gordon are studying how music and rhythm training could help children who struggle with language development. Their work is part of ...

Watch out Jay-Z, Diddy, Eminem! When Dick Van Dyke and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith got together in the recording studio to make their new kids’ CD Rhythm Train, the result was unexpected ...

From hearing lullabies to the sing-song lilt of a parent’s voice, babies form strong connections with their caregivers through sound and song. Think about the way we instinctively bounce or rock fussy ...

One of the first senses children pick up on is sound — both the ones they hear (i.e. your voice or the booming bark of your family dog) and the ones they make themselves (cooing, laughing, babbling).

Christian Branch steps up to the audio mixing board, his brown eyes focused on music tracks bouncing across the screen above it, and taps out a bass beat. Thump. Boom. THUMP-THUMP. Boom. Thump. It ...

I caught up with Cathy Kielar a couple of months ago when she led a workshop that I attended with my six-year-old at the American Tobacco campus in Durham. We had a great time learning all about ...

Mozart may have written his first musical compositions before he was 5, but did he take the delight that 4-year-old Hannah Volk of Branford takes in playing music on the piano both forward and ...

"I moved to Italy when I finished my bachelor of music, and I started to take more linguistic classes and to think about language in the brain, and music in the brain," she says. "What was happening ...

Reyna Gordon was an aspiring opera singer fresh out of college when she began contemplating the questions that would eventually define her career. "I moved to Italy when I finished my bachelor of ...

Reyna Gordon was an aspiring opera singer fresh out of college when she began contemplating the questions that would eventually define her career. "I moved to Italy when I finished my bachelor of ...