This textbook provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion, using an
overarching organizational scheme of how biological, psychological, and environmental …

Which stimulus and person characteristics determine aesthetic appreciation? For many
centuries, philosophers and scientists have been trying to solve this complex puzzle …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

Music ranks among the greatest human pleasures. It consistently engages the reward
system, and converging evidence implies it exploits predictions to do so. Both prediction …

In studies of emotions, music is usually used to induce the emotions that are measured on
the arousal-valence/arousal-valence-dominance scales. However, the influence of music …

Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology, Second Edition, is
geared toward music students yet incorporates other disciplines to provide an explanation …

Since the time of Turing, computer scientists have dreamed of building artificial general
intelligence (AGI)-a system that can think, learn and act as humans do. Over recent years …

Highlights•Self-produced stimuli are thought to be attenuated via an efference
copy.•However, humans touch themselves frequently and some self-touch are felt …

The interplay between external auditory cues in the eating environment and cognitive
processes, such as distraction, may influence food intake, but how and the degree to which …

Interacting with music is a uniquely pleasurable activity that is ubiquitous across human
cultures. Current theories suggest that a prominent driver of musical pleasure responses is …