Familiarity in music has been reported as an important factor modulating emotional and
hedonic responses in the brain. Familiarity and repetition may increase the liking of a piece …

During the last decade, cultural industries have grown in economic importance, and
research interest in them has increased. Despite prolific research, there is a lack of a …

Why do people listen to music? Over the past several decades, scholars have proposed
numerous functions that listening to music might fulfill. However, different theoretical …

The Psychology of Musical Development provides an up-to-date and comprehensive
account of the latest theory, empirical research and applications in the study of musical …

A meta-analysis was performed on the results of previous studies investigating the
association between personality traits and music preferences. Regarding the categorization …

Subjective complexity has been found to be related to hedonic measures of preference,
pleasantness and beauty, but there is no consensus about the nature of this relationship in …

On the one hand, the majority of research on the functions of music listening focuses on
individual differences; on the other hand, a growing amount of research investigates …

Individual differences in the strength of music preference are among the most intricate
psychological phenomena. While one person gets by very well without music, another …

Objective: Previous behavioral studies show that music listening enhances attention and
working memory in both healthy and clinical populations. However, how music listening …

Understanding music popularity is important not only for the artists who create and perform
music but also for the music-related industry. It has not been studied well how music …