In 1975, Colwyn Trevarthen first presented his groundbreaking explorations into the early
origins of human intersubjectivity. His influential model dictates that, during intimate and …

When people play music and dance together, they engage in forms of musical joint action
that are often characterized by a shared sense of rhythmic timing and affective state (ie …

The latest groundbreaking, interdisciplinary work from one of our most eloquent and
significant writers about emotion and the brain. An exploration into the adaptive functions of …

Fig. 1.2 Photos show the expressions of Laura and her mother in dialogue. The pitch plot is
a compressed version of that shown in Figure 1.1 indicating how the narrative demonstrates …

An exploration of how the unconscious is formed and functions by one of our most renowned
experts on emotion and the brain. This book traces the evolution of the concept of the …

This is the first major book in English on literary reading to be based on empirical methods.
Moving the focus away from interpretation to the experience of literary texts, these studies …

Winner, 2011 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in Literature and Fine Arts The Neural Sublime
brings recent work in cognitive neuroscience to bear on some famously vexed issues in …

Why has the female voice deepened over the last fifty years? Who talks more, men or
women? How can a baby in the womb distinguish between different voices? The human …

This chapter suggests that present-day neuroaesthetics is limited in three important respects
by a narrow, culture-bound sense of aesthetics/art. Neuroaesthetics is a young enough field …

This article departs from many discussions of the origin, evolution, and adaptive function (s)
of music by treating music not as perceptual qualities (pitch, timbre, meter), formal elements …