We suggest that music perception is an active act of listening, providing an irresistible
epistemic offering. When listening to music we constantly generate plausible hypotheses …

Music is a universal feature of human societies, partly owing to its power to evoke strong
emotions and influence moods. During the past decade, the investigation of the neural …

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 …

A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the
brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax …

Hierarchical structure with nested nonlocal dependencies is a key feature of human
language and can be identified theoretically in most pieces of tonal music. However …

Introduction Studies of categorical decision-making attempt to understand behavior by
probing how different features of complex and changing environments guide the selection of …

Tension and suspense are powerful emotional experiences that occur in a wide variety of
contexts (eg, in music, film, literature, and everyday life). The omnipresence of tension and …

This paper describes principles underlying the evocation of emotion with music: evaluation,
resonance, memory, expectancy/tension, imagination, understanding, and social functions …

Following in a psychological and musicological tradition beginning with Leonard Meyer, and
continuing through David Huron, we present a functional, cognitive account of the …

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music.
Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for …