Tonal music is a highly structured system that is ubiquitous in our cultural environment. We
demonstrate the acquisition of implicit knowledge of tonal structure through neural self …

What can we say about the perception of music by the silent majority of listeners, those for
whom music is written but who neither create music nor can articulate their musical …

Listeners' expectations for melodies and harmonies in tonal music are perhaps the most
studied aspect of music cognition. Long debated has been whether faster response times …

The mind internalizes persistent structural regularities in music and recruits these
internalized representations to facilitate subsequent perception. Facilitation underlies the …

This article begins with a brief summary of how tonality is defined in musicology and some of
the tensions that exist between different theoretical traditions. Then, the basic cognitive …

loudness, or timbre, while manipulating higherlevel musical constructs, such as rhythm or
scale. In a music cognition task, a listener may rate how well various musical tones fit into a …

Processing musical information is a task many of us perform effortlessly, and often,
unconsciously. In order to gain a better understanding of this basic human cognitive ability …

Several features of connectionist modelsin which simple processing units, connected by
weighted links in a network, activate each other in parallelrecommend them as models of …

We examined a variety of real-time responses evoked by a single piece of music, the organ
Duetto BWV 805 by JS Bach. The primary data came from a concurrent probe-tone method …

Abstract discusses how musical expectations are generated experimentally/describes the
relationship between tonal expectations, consonance, stability, and memory, and questions …