Rhythm and pitch are the 2 primary dimensions of music. They are interesting
psychologically because simple, well-defined units combine to form highly complex and …

Some scholars consider music to exemplify the classic criteria for a complex human
adaptation, including universality, orderly development, and special‐purpose cortical …

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 this book, David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition:
how do we extract basic kinds of musical information, such as meter, phrase structure …

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 …

Examining the intersection of music, psychology, and neuroscience, Music, Thought, and
Feeling, Second Edition, surveys the rapidly growing field of music cognition and explores …

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 …

Musicians and nonmusicians listened to musical phrases that were either selected from the
classical repertoire or composed for the experiments. The phrases ended either congruously …

THE ORIGINS and adaptive significance of music, long an elusive target, are now active
topics of empirical study, with many interesting developments over the past few years. This …

Research has investigated psychological processes in an attempt to explain how and why
people appreciate music. Three programs of research have shed light on these processes …