Language is typically viewed as fundamental to human intelligence. Music, while
recognized as a human universal, is often treated as an ancillary ability–one dependent on …

Roughness is a perceptual attribute typically associated with certain stimuli that are
presented in one of the spatial senses. In auditory research, the term is typically used to …

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied
experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In …

From prehistoric bone flutes to pipe organs to digital synthesizers, instruments have been
important to musical cultures around the world. Yet, how do instruments affect musical …

I defend a model of the musically extended mind. I consider how acts of “musicking” grant
access to novel emotional experiences otherwise inaccessible. First, I discuss the idea of …

Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book
studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and …

Do people who speak different languages think differently, even when they are not using
language? To find out, we used nonlinguistic psychophysical tasks to compare mental …

Basic Emotion theory has had a tremendous influence on the affective sciences, including
music psychology, where most researchers have assumed that music expressivity is …

There has been a rapid growth of interest amongst researchers in the cross-modal
correspondences in recent years. In part, this has resulted from the emerging realization of …

When people play music and dance together, they engage in forms of musical joint action
that are often characterized by a shared sense of rhythmic timing and affective state (ie …