Summary: A new study discovered that randomly played sounds during sleep can actively impair memory consolidation. By ...

For several years now, sleep research has been focusing intensively on the question of whether targeted auditory stimulation ...

A research team in Freiburg has investigated how random sounds played during sleep affect the consolidation of new memories.

Nightfall becomes scary when nighttime sounds are loud and unpredictable. The bark of my dogs, the sudden slam of a car door, ...

Playing calming music before bed may lower your heart rate, ease anxiety, and help you sleep better, research suggests.

Think your sound machine is helping you sleep? It might be doing the opposite. A new study from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine found that listening to pink noise at bedtime ...

“The sound machine can generate any of several types of sound, from nature [or] music,” Dr. Cory Portnuff, an audiologist at the University of Colorado Health’s Hearing and Balance Clinic, says. In ...