Research has investigated psychological processes in an attempt to explain how and why
people appreciate music. Three programs of research have shed light on these processes …

Mirroring, an exercise practiced in Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT), is considered by
practitioners and patients to enhance emotional understanding and empathy for others …

The position of emotion in music has been a subject of considerable interest and debate.
However emotional aspects of music have received surprising little attention in the 45 years …

Musical training is known to modify cortical organization. Here, we show that such
modifications extend to subcortical sensory structures and generalize to processing of …

The classical, disembodied approach to music cognition conceptualizes action and
perception as separate, peripheral processes. In contrast, embodied accounts of music …

Examining the intersection of music, psychology, and neuroscience, Music, Thought, and
Feeling, Second Edition, surveys the rapidly growing field of music cognition and explores …

Body movements communicate affective expressions and, in recent years, computational
models have been developed to recognize affective expressions from body movements or to …

Music researchers frequently regard music in terms of works, and regard these works in
terms of scores. Yet in an important sense, music exists only in the moment of its …

In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider
music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different …

Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology, Second Edition, is
geared toward music students yet incorporates other disciplines to provide an explanation …