Understanding visual narrative sequences, as found in comics, is known to recruit similar
cognitive mechanisms to verbal language. As measured by event-related potentials (ERPs) …

The perception of musical phrase boundaries is a critical aspect of human musical
experience: It allows us to organize, understand, derive pleasure from, and remember …

Chunking is a key mechanism for sequence processing. Studies on speech sequences have
suggested low-frequency cortical activity tracks spoken phrases, that is, chunks of words …

It is debated whether cortical responses matching the time scales of phrases and sentences
mediate the mental construction of the syntactic chunks or are simply caused by the …

Music can be interpreted by attributing syntactic relationships to sequential musical events,
and, computationally, such musical interpretation represents an analogous combinatorial …

How are listeners able to follow and enjoy complex pieces of music? Several theoretical
frameworks suggest links between the process of listening and the formal structure of music …

In real life, the processing of an incoming event is continuously influenced by prior
information at multiple timescales. The present study investigated how harmonic contexts at …

Tension is one of the core principles of emotion evoked by music, linking objective musical
events and subjective experience. The present study used continuous behavioral rating and …

In music, chords are organized into hierarchical structures on the basis of musical syntax
and the syntax of Western music can be implicitly acquired by listeners growing up in a …

Musical expertise is known to affect speech perception at units below clause/sentence. This
study investigated whether the musician's advantage extends to a higher and more central …