The measurement of cognitive resource allocation during listening, or listening effort,
provides valuable insight in the factors influencing auditory processing. In recent years …

Music is a universal language that can elicit profound emotional and cognitive responses. In
this literature review, we explore the intricate relationship between music and the brain, from …

What happens in our brains when we compose a melody, write a poem, paint a picture, or
choreograph a dance sequence? How is this different from what occurs in the brain when …

The current paper investigates the value and application of a range of physiological and
neuroscientific techniques in applied marketing research and consumer science …

Music is characterized by acoustic forms that are predictive of its behavioural functions. For
example, adult listeners accurately identify unfamiliar lullabies as infant-directed on the …

When do people say that they are moved, and does this experience constitute a unique
emotion? We review theory and empirical research on being moved across psychology and …

People sometimes experience a strong emotional response to artworks. Previous studies
have demonstrated that the peak emotional experience of chills (goose bumps or shivers) …

Human musicality exhibits the necessary hallmarks for biological adaptations. Evolutionary
explanations focus on recurrent adaptive problems that human musicality possibly solved in …

Abstract Jaak Panksepp's Affective Neuroscience Theory (ANT) belongs to the most
prominent emotion theories in the psychological and psychiatric sciences. ANT proposes the …

Music often makes people feel like crying (get a lump in their throat and tears in their eyes)
or actually cry. Because crying can co-occur with so many emotions, the present study …