The comparative study of music and language is drawing an increasing amount of research
interest. Like language, music is a human universal involving perceptually discrete elements …

The present paper reviews a set of studies designed to investigate different aspects of the
capacity for processing Western music. This includes perceiving the relationships between a …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

In recent years, many psychologists and cognitive scientists have published their views on
the psychology of music. Unfortunately, this scientific literature has remained inaccessible to …

Tension and suspense are powerful emotional experiences that occur in a wide variety of
contexts (eg, in music, film, literature, and everyday life). The omnipresence of tension and …

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 …

In Music and Probability, David Temperley explores issues in music perception and
cognition from a probabilistic perspective. The application of probabilistic ideas to music has …

In this article, the rapidly growing body of research that has been published recently on the
topic of crossmodal correspondences that involve auditory and gustatory/flavor stimuli is …

We investigate the dynamics of sensory integration for perceiving musical performance, a
complex natural behavior. Thirty musically trained participants saw, heard, or both saw and …

THIS STUDY PRESENTS AND TESTS a theory of tonal tension (Lerdahl, 2001). The model
has four components: prolongational structure, a pitch-space model, a surfacetension …