Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable
experience, moving us both physically and emotionally—and learning to play music shapes …

The extent to which changes in brain activity can foreshadow human error is uncertain yet
has important theoretical and practical implications. The present study examined the …

Complex hand dexterity is fundamental to our interactions with the physical, social, and
cultural environment. Dexterity can be an expression of creativity and precision in a range of …

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 …

The ability to perceive and produce a beat is believed to be universal in humans, but
individual ability varies. The current study examined four factors that may influence beat …

The present study used ERPs to test the extent to which temporal processing is modality
specific or modality general. Participants were presented with auditory and visual temporal …

Recently, performance magic has become a source of insight into the processes underlying
awareness. Magicians have highlighted a set of variables that can create moments of visual …

People are able to modify the spontaneous pace of their actions to interact with their
environment and others. This ability is underpinned by high-level cognitive functions but little …

From established musicians to musical novices, humans perceive temporal patterns in
music and respond to them. There is much that we still do not understand, however, about …

Beat deafness, a recently documented form of congenital amusia, provides a unique window
into functional specialization of neural circuitry for the processing of musical stimuli: Beat …