Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles
of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …

As a species-typical trait of Homo sapiens, musicality represents a cognitively complex and
biologically grounded capacity worthy of intensive empirical investigation. Four principles …

Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever
since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it …

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 …

The prevalent approach to developing cognitive models of music perception and
composition is to construct systems of symbolic rules and constraints on the basis of …

This paper outlines a cognitive and comparative perspective on human rhythmic cognition
that emphasizes a key distinction between pulse perception and meter perception. Pulse …

In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of
the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase …

The Bayesian brain hypothesis provides an attractive unifying framework for perception,
cognition, and action. We argue that the framework can also usefully integrate interoception …

The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of research relating to the temporal aspects of
music perception and cognition. This topic has quite a history as a research topic, having …