We suggest that music perception is an active act of listening, providing an irresistible
epistemic offering. When listening to music we constantly generate plausible hypotheses …

Beat perception offers cognitive scientists an exciting opportunity to explore how cognition
and action are intertwined in the brain even in the absence of movement. Many believe the …

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

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 …

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 purpose of this review was to integrate leading paradigms in psychology and
neuroscience with a theory of the embodied, situated human brain, called the Hierarchically …

Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable
experience, moving us both physically and emotionally—and learning to play music shapes …

Rhythmicity permeates large parts of human experience. Humans generate various motor
and brain rhythms spanning a range of frequencies. We also experience and synchronize to …

Groove—defined as the pleasurable urge to move to a rhythm—depends on a fine-tuned
interplay between predictability arising from repetitive rhythmic patterns, and surprise arising …

Belief updating is a relatively nascent field of research that examines how people adjust
their beliefs in light of new evidence. So far, belief updating has been investigated in partly …