Briefs
Short notes on the week in sound — the news, read for you.
Seniors who kept playing an instrument held onto working memory
Kyoto University followed adults who started lessons at an average age of 73; four years on, those who quit lost verbal working memory and…
Music therapy lowered cravings in a 16-person addiction pilot
Anglia Ruskin researchers recorded EEG across six weekly sessions at a London addiction service; cravings dropped after sessions and frontal beta activity fell versus…
Blocking one signal turns ear support cells into hair cells
Tel Aviv University and colleagues report in Science Advances that inhibiting the Notch pathway converts cochlear supporting cells into the sensory cells mammals cannot…
Universal and Apple release 151 pop songs with beats mixed underneath
Universal’s Sollos unit embeds gamma, theta and delta beats under Sam Smith, Olivia Dean and others for World Mental Health Day; the evidence is…
Rice wins $3.9M to test whether composing music protects aging brains
A five-year National Institute on Aging trial will put 210 adults over 65 with mild cognitive impairment through a six-week composition course, tracked with…
Two editions of one sound-healing market report disagree by double
Research and Markets now pegs sound healing apps at $279.9M in 2026 growing to $558.4M by 2032; its own earlier edition said $122.3M to…