Music in the brain

P Vuust, OA Heggli, KJ Friston… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable
experience, moving us both physically and emotionally—and learning to play music shapes …

Why and how should cognitive science care about aesthetics?

E Wassiliwizky, W Menninghaus - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021‏ - cell.com
Empirical aesthetics has found its way into mainstream cognitive science. Until now, most
research has focused either on identifying the internal processes that underlie a perceiver's …

Music as a coevolved system for social bonding

PE Savage, P Loui, B Tarr, A Schachner… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2021‏ - cambridge.org
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

Live music stimulates the affective brain and emotionally entrains listeners in real time

W Trost, C Trevor, N Fernandez, F Steiner… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
Music is powerful in conveying emotions and triggering affective brain mechanisms.
Affective brain responses in previous studies were however rather inconsistent, potentially …

[HTML][HTML] The sensation of groove engages motor and reward networks

TE Matthews, MAG Witek, T Lund, P Vuust… - NeuroImage, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The sensation of groove has been defined as the pleasurable desire to move to music,
suggesting that both motor timing and reward processes are involved in this experience …

[HTML][HTML] A coordinate-based meta-analysis of music-evoked emotions

S Koelsch - NeuroImage, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Since the publication of the first neuroscience study investigating emotion with music about
two decades ago, the number of functional neuroimaging studies published on this topic has …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analytic evidence for a novel hierarchical model of conceptual processing

P Kuhnke, MC Beaupain, J Arola, M Kiefer… - Neuroscience & …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Conceptual knowledge plays a pivotal role in human cognition. Grounded cognition theories
propose that concepts consist of perceptual-motor features represented in modality-specific …

[HTML][HTML] The psychological basis of music appreciation: Structure, self, source.

WF Thompson, NJ Bullot, EH Margulis - Psychological Review, 2023‏ - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Can rhythm-mediated reward boost learning, memory, and social connection? Perspectives for future research

A Fiveash, L Ferreri, FL Bouwer, A Kösem… - Neuroscience & …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Studies of rhythm processing and of reward have progressed separately, with little
connection between the two. However, consistent links between rhythm and reward are …

The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions

J Stupacher, TE Matthews, V Pando-Naude… - Frontiers in …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Groove—defined as the pleasurable urge to move to a rhythm—depends on a fine-tuned
interplay between predictability arising from repetitive rhythmic patterns, and surprise arising …