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 …

Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually
commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of …

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 …

A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the
brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax …

Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually
commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of …

Music perception involves acoustic analysis, auditory memory, auditory scene analysis,
processing of interval relations, of musical syntax and semantics, and activation of (pre) …

The comparative study of music and language is drawing an increasing amount of research
interest. Like language, music is a human universal involving perceptually discrete elements …

Although the neural underpinnings of music cognition have been widely studied in the last 5
years, relatively little is known about the neuroscience underlying emotional reactions that …

The present study used pleasant and unpleasant music to evoke emotion and functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine neural correlates of emotion processing …

Research on how the brain processes music is emerging as a rich and stimulating area of
investigation of perception, memory, emotion, and performance. Results emanating from …