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 …

Soundscape research represents a paradigm shift from noise control policies towards a new
multidisciplinary approach as it involves not only physical measurements but also the …

Listening to music often evokes intense emotions [1, 2]. Recent research suggests that
musical pleasure comes from positive reward prediction errors, which arise when what is …

Music has always played a central role in human culture. The question of how musical
sounds can have such profound emotional and rewarding effects has been a topic of interest …

The sensation of groove has been defined as the pleasurable desire to move to music,
suggesting that both motor timing and reward processes are involved in this experience …

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 …

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 …

The fields of music, health, and technology have seen significant interactions in recent years
in develo** music technology for health care and well-being. In an effort to strengthen the …