Research on how the brain processes music is emerging as a rich and stimulating area of
investigation of perception, memory, emotion, and performance. Results emanating from …

There has been a growing interest over the past decade into the health benefits of music, in
particular examining its psychological and neurological effects. Yet this is the first attempt to …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied
experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In …

Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical
activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen …

The increasingly intensive study of music by neuroscientists over the past two decades has
established the neurosciences of music as a subdiscipline of cognitive neuroscience …

Music is often studied as a cognitive domain alongside language. The emotional aspects of
music have also been shown to be important, but views on their nature diverge. For …

A critical period can be defined as a developmental window during which specific
experience has a greater effect than at other times. Musical behavior involves many skills …

How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of
long standing. In The Musical Representation, Charles Nussbaum offers a philosophical …

psychoacoustic theories of dissonance often follow Helmholtz and attribute it to partials
(fundamental frequencies or overtones) near enough in frequency to affect the same region …