Music has existed in human societies since prehistory, perhaps because it allows
expression and regulation of emotion and evokes pleasure. In this review, we present …

Background: Emotion regulation (ER) is an internal process through which a person
maintains a comfortable state of arousal by modulating one or more aspects of emotion. The …

Affective sounds are an integral part of the natural and social environment that shape and
influence behavior across a multitude of species. In human primates, these affective sounds …

Music is a highly complex and versatile stimulus for the brain that engages many temporal,
frontal, parietal, cerebellar, and subcortical areas involved in auditory, cognitive, emotional …

Interactive generative musical performance provides a suitable model for communication
because, like natural linguistic discourse, it involves an exchange of ideas that is …

Music and speech are often cited as characteristically human forms of communication. Both
share the features of hierarchical structure, complex sound systems, and sensorimotor …

Neuroimaging studies in the last 20 years have tried to unravel the neural correlates of
number processing across formats in humans and non-human primates. Results point to the …

Pitch is a defining perceptual property of many real-world sounds, including music and
speech. Classically, theories of pitch perception have differentiated between temporal and …

Rhythm as the time structure of music is composed of distinct temporal components such as
pattern, meter, and tempo. Each feature requires different computational processes: meter …

How is the processing of task information organized in the brain? Many views of brain
function emphasize modularity, with different regions specialized for processing different …