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 …

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 …

This article describes a new expert-labelled dataset featuring harmonic, phrase, and
cadence analyses of all piano sonatas by WA Mozart. The dataset draws on the DCML …

Memory for sequences is a central topic in neuroscience, and decades of studies have
investigated the neural mechanisms underlying the coding of a wide array of sequences …

Music is a non-verbal human language, built on logical, hierarchical structures, that offers
excellent opportunities to explore how the brain processes complex spatiotemporal auditory …

Expectation, or prediction, has become a major theme in cognitive science. Music offers a
powerful system for studying how expectations are formed and deployed in the processing …

Aesthetic preference is intricately linked to learning and creativity. Previous studies have
largely examined the perception of novelty in terms of pleasantness and the generation of …

Auditory recognition is a crucial cognitive process that relies on the organization of single
elements over time. However, little is known about the spatiotemporal dynamics underlying …

Harmonic cadences are chord progressions that play an important structural role in Western
classical music–they demarcate musical phrases and contribute to the tonality. This study …

Cadences are complex structures that have been driving music from the beginning of
contrapuntal polyphony until today. Detecting such structures is vital for numerous MIR tasks …