People spend most of their lives in buildings and unavoidably perceive the sound in their
surroundings. The understanding of the human perceptual dimensions of sound is important …

We investigated the neural underpinnings of timbral, tonal, and rhythmic features of a
naturalistic musical stimulus. Participants were scanned with functional Magnetic …

Timbre exists at the confluence of the physical and the perceptual, and due to
inconsistencies between these frames, it is notoriously hard to describe. This chapter …

Musical emotions, such as happiness and sadness, have been investigated using
instrumental music devoid of linguistic content. However, pop and rock, the most common …

Music signal processing may appear to be the junior relation of the large and mature field of
speech signal processing, not least because many techniques and representations …

Music makes us move. Several factors can affect the characteristics of such movements,
including individual factors or musical features. For this study, we investigated the effect of …

Emotion-related areas of the brain, such as the medial frontal cortices, amygdala, and
striatum, are activated during listening to sad or happy music as well as during listening to …

Music has the capacity to induce movement in humans. Such responses during music
listening are usually spontaneous and range from tap** to full-body dancing. However, it …

The authors address the identification of predominant music instruments in polytimbral audio
by previously dividing the original signal into several streams. Several strategies are …

considerable effort has been made towards understanding how acoustic and structural
features contribute to emotional expression in music, but relatively little attention has been …