According to a millennial-old philosophical debate, aesthetic emotions have been
connected to knowledge acquisition. Recent scientific evidence, collected across different …

A key component of research on human sentence processing is to characterize the
processing difficulty associated with the comprehension of words in context. Models that …

Statistical learning (SL) is a method of learning based on the transitional probabilities
embedded in sequential phenomena such as music and language. It has been considered …

Music perception depends on internal psychological models derived through exposure to a
musical culture. It is hypothesized that this musical enculturation depends on two cognitive …

Musical imagery is the voluntary internal hearing of music in the mind without the need for
physical action or external stimulation. Numerous studies have already revealed brain areas …

Expectations shape our experience of music. However, the internal model upon which
listeners form melodic expectations is still debated. Do expectations stem from Gestalt-like …

Aesthetic experience, characterized by distinctive features, and to occur when people
engage with sensory objects with a specific attitude. However, contemporary research …

We explore the potential of a popular distributional semantics vector space model,
word2vec, for capturing meaningful relationships in ecological (complex polyphonic) music …

Neural responses to auditory surprise are typically studied with highly unexpected,
disruptive sounds. Consequently, little is known about auditory prediction in everyday …

This paper presents a theory of the basic operation of mind, Information Dynamics of
Thinking, which is intended for computational implementation and thence empirical testing. It …