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 …

Speech and language are considered uniquely human abilities: animals have
communication systems, but they do not match human linguistic skills in terms of recursive …

Abstract Syntax, the structure of sentences, enables humans to express an infinite range of
meanings through finite means. The neurobiology of syntax has been intensely studied but …

This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a
crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many …

Every human culture has some form of music with a beat: a perceived periodic pulse that
structures the perception of musical rhythm and which serves as a framework for …

The importance of music in our daily life has given rise to an increased number of studies
addressing the brain regions involved in its appreciation. Some of these studies controlled …

The fundamental perceptual unit in hearing is the'auditory object'. Similar to visual objects,
auditory objects are the computational result of the auditory system's capacity to detect …

Abstract The Supplementary Motor Area (SMA) is considered as an anatomically and
functionally heterogeneous region and is implicated in several functions. We propose that …

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

Predictive processing of information is essential for goal-directed behavior. We offer an
account of auditory perception suggesting that representations of predictable patterns, or …