The purpose of this paper is to construct a comprehensive review of the research literature in
the reading of western staff notation. Studies in music perception, music cognition, music …

Piano performance involves a large repertoire of highly skilled movements. The acquisition
of these exceptional skills despite innate neural and biomechanical constraints requires a …

From prehistoric bone flutes to pipe organs to digital synthesizers, instruments have been
important to musical cultures around the world. Yet, how do instruments affect musical …

Through the preferential pairing of response positions to pitch, here we show that the
internal representation of pitch height is spatial in nature and affects performance, especially …

(Angell, 1906, pp. 154-155, quoted in Kubovy & Van Valkenburg, p. 100). Sound would thus
almost inevitably activate visual and kinetic imagery. Support for such notions of cross …

Though auditory pitch is customarily mapped in Western cultures onto spatial verticality
(high–low), both anthropological reports and cognitive studies suggest that pitch may be …

Playing a musical instrument requires efficient auditory and motor processing. Fast feed
forward and feedback connections that link the acoustic target to the corresponding motor …

This study was aimed at examining whether pitch height and pitch change are mentally
represented along spatial axes. A series of experiments explored, for isolated tones and 2 …

Fully updated, the second edition of Neuropsychology of Art offers a fascinating exploration
of the brain regions and neuronal systems which support artistic creativity, talent and …

Musically naive participants were scanned before and after a period of 15 weeks during
which they were taught to read music and play the keyboard. When participants played …