What makes an expert? What strategies do they use? If you're an expert in one domain, are
you more likely to become an expert in a second? In examining questions like these …

This book provides a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to psychological
research for musicians-performers, music educators, and studio teachers. Designed to …

Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise,
compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for …

A growing body of research suggests that cognitive functions, such as attention and memory,
drive perception by tuning sensory mechanisms to relevant acoustic features. Long-term …

Sounds are generated by interactions between objects in the world and carry information
about the sound's sources and the objects' sound-generating actions. This dual nature of …

Auditory recognition expertise refers to one's ability to accurately and rapidly identify
individual sound sources within a homogeneous class of stimuli. Compared to the study of …

After several years of exposure to musical instrument practice, musicians acquire a great
expertise in processing auditory features like tonal pitch or timbre. Here we compared the …

In the present study, psychometric performance on different aspects of primary mental
abilities (verbal comprehension, word fluency, space, flexibility of closure, perceptual speed …

Die Philosophie könnte ihre Restkompetenz schließlich darin sehen, Fragen zu stellen, für
die sich niemand interessiert–zum Beispiel die Frage nach der Avantgarde heute. Das bis …

The present study investigated a possible link between musical training and immediate
memory span by testing experienced musicians and three groups of musically …