The perception of music depends on many culture-specific factors, but is also constrained by
properties of the auditory system. This has been best characterized for those aspects of …

Vocal theories of the origin of language rarely make a case for the precursor functions that
underlay the evolution of speech. The vocal expression of emotion is unquestionably the …

We provide evidence that the roughness of chords—a psychoacoustic property resulting
from unresolved frequency components—is associated with perceived musical stability …

Synchronization of body movement to an acoustic rhythm is a major form of entrainment,
such as occurs in dance. This is exemplified in experimental studies of finger tap** …

This is an attempt to describe and explain so-called timbre-based music as a special system
of musicking, communication, and psychological and social usage, which along with its …

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the biological and cultural evolution of
music, and specifically in the role played by perceptual and cognitive factors in sha** core …

Pitch intervals are central to most musical systems, which utilize pitch at the expense of other
acoustic dimensions. It seemed plausible that pitch might uniquely permit precise perception …

This paper reveals the way in which musical pitch works as a peculiar form of cognition that
reflects upon the organization of the surrounding world as perceived by majority of music …

The fields of music cognition and psychoacoustics argue that Western musical scales are
“natural” because they are derived from the physics of sound via the harmonic series …

Traditional multipart-singing is an essential component of the national identity of Georgia. It
has been an active field of ethnomusicological research since more than 100 years, with a …