Listening to music often evokes intense emotions [1, 2]. Recent research suggests that
musical pleasure comes from positive reward prediction errors, which arise when what is …

Expectation is crucial for our enjoyment of music, yet the underlying generative mechanisms
remain unclear. While sensory models derive predictions based on local acoustic …

The purpose of the present study was to investigate, compare, and characterize interactive
VR-based preservice science teacher clinical teaching environments with those of real-life …

Expectations shape our experience of music. However, the internal model upon which
listeners form melodic expectations is still debated. Do expectations stem from Gestalt-like …

Functional harmony is an integral part of many repertoires in the Western musical practices,
including both diatonic and extended tonality. In the latter context, music-theoretical …

Music listening can lead to strong aesthetic experiences. However, to gain deeper insights
into such experiences, more empirical research outside of laboratory settings is required …

This study examines whether scrambling the order of events in a tonal chord sequence
inhibits the speed and accuracy of processing in two behavioral harmonic priming …

We introduce the Billboard Melodic Music Dataset (BiMMuDa), which contains the lead
vocal melodies of the top five songs of each year from 1950 to 2022 according to the …

Electrophysiological studies have investigated predictive processing in music by examining
event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by the violation of musical expectations. While …

We present a novel set of 200 Western tonal musical stimuli (MUST) to be used in research
on perception and appreciation of music. It consists of four subsets of 50 stimuli varying in …