These two quotations reflect common attitudes about music. Tolstoy's comment suggests
that music conveys emotion, whereas Torke's question implies that music influences …

KNOWLEDGE OF MUSICAL RULES AND STRUCTURES HAS been reliably demonstrated
in humans of different ages, cultures, and levels of music training, and has been linked to …

What are the determinants of music preference, and how strong is their relative influence?
This article investigates the parameters that may influence music preference, focusing on the …

One of the authors of this chapter recently commented to a colleague,“If I read one more
paper that opens with that Allport quote about attitude as the “most distinctive and …

WE REPLICATED PREVIOUS FINDINGS AND DEMONSTRATED that familiarity with
musical stimuli increased'liking'or'preference'for the stimuli. We also demonstrated that …

In the present study, the gating paradigm was used to measure how much perceptual
information that was extracted from musical excerpts needs to be heard to provide …

Auditory training programs are being developed to remediate various types of
communication disorders. Biological changes have been shown to coincide with improved …

Eye fixations and saccades (eye movements) of expert and novice dance observers were
compared to determine the effect of acquired expectations on observations of human …

The potential of music to communicate emotions is part of our everyday experience. Music
psychologists have distinguished between emotion perception, which refers to the …

Design This was a single-factor, within-subjects design with two conditions. The first
condition was familiar (from previous commercial use) music where the music track was …