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 …

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

We present the results of a study testing the often-theorized role of musical expectations in
inducing listeners' emotions in a live flute concert experiment with 50 participants. Using an …

The perception of musical phrase boundaries is a critical aspect of human musical
experience: It allows us to organize, understand, derive pleasure from, and remember …

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 …

Grou** and boundary perception are central to many aspects of sensory processing in
cognition. We present a comparative study of recently published computational models of …

A basic function of cognition is to detect regularities in sensory input to facilitate the
prediction and recognition of future events. It has been proposed that these implicit …

Poetry is one of the most creative expressions of language, but how we evaluate the
creativity of a poem is not properly characterized. The present study investigated the role of …

Coding for the degree of disorder in a temporally unfolding sensory input allows for
optimized encoding of these inputs via information compression and predictive processing …

A system is described which uses the Audio Oracle algorithm for music analysis and
machine improvisation. Some improvements on previous Factor Oracle-based systems are …