The descending projections from motor cortex share many features with top-down or
backward connections in visual cortex; for example, corticospinal projections originate in …

The social mind is tailored to the problem of predicting the mental states and actions of other
people. However, social cognition researchers have only scratched the surface of the …

Moving to music is an essential human pleasure particularly related to musical groove.
Structurally, music associated with groove is often characterised by rhythmic complexity in …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

Humans possess an ability to perceive and synchronize movements to the beat in music
('beat perception and synchronization'), and recent neuroscientific data have offered new …

Predictive coding is a unifying framework for understanding redundancy reduction and
efficient coding in the nervous system. By transmitting only the unpredicted portions of an …

Musical rhythm, consisting of apparently abstract intervals of accented temporal events, has
a remarkable capacity to move our minds and bodies. How does the cognitive system …

THE DISCOVERY OF INDIVIDUAL" MIRROR NEURONS" in the macaque brain that fire both
when an action is executed and when that same action is observed or heard, and of a …

Music perception depends on internal psychological models derived through exposure to a
musical culture. It is hypothesized that this musical enculturation depends on two cognitive …

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 …