Music perception involves acoustic analysis, auditory memory, auditory scene analysis,
processing of interval relations, of musical syntax and semantics, and activation of (pre) …

Music perception involves complex brain functions underlying acoustic analysis, auditory
memory, auditory scene analysis, and processing of musical syntax and semantics …

The study of music perception and cognition is one of the oldest topics in experimental
psychology. The last 20 years have seen an increased interest in understanding the …

Music perception is a quite complex cognitive task, involving the perception and integration
of various elements including melody, harmony, pitch, rhythm, and timbre. A preliminary …

A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the
brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax …

In the neurosciences of music, a consensus on the nature of affective states during music
listening has not been reached. What is undeniable is that subjective affective states can be …

Recent demonstrations that music is capable of conveying semantically meaningful
information has raised several questions as to what the underlying mechanisms of …

Music is a high-level cognitive capacity, similar in many respects to language (Patel 2007).
Like language, music is universal among humans, and musical systems vary among …

Music is often used to regulate emotions and mood. Typically, music conveys and induces
emotions even when one does not attend to them. Studies on the neural substrates of …

Music is often studied as a cognitive domain alongside language. The emotional aspects of
music have also been shown to be important, but views on their nature diverge. For …