The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how we experience qualia
or phenomenal experiences, such as seeing, hearing, and feeling, and knowing what they …

Sharing the complex narratives within scientific data in an intuitive fashion has proven
difficult, especially for communicators endeavoring to reach a wide audience comprised of …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

¿ Qué procesos mentales están involucrados al escuchar, interpretar y componer música?¿
Qué interviene al" comprender" una pieza musical?¿ Cómo se adquieren estas …

Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new
ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects for processing, whilst ignoring …

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 …

The relationship between psychology and music is characteristic of that between a new
science and an established discipline. Western music theory has a very old tradition, dating …

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 …

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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores the grouping mechanisms in music. Music
provides a complexity, rapidly changing acoustic spectrum, often derived from the …