To what extent does playing a musical instrument contribute to an individual's construction of
knowledge? This paper aims to address this question by examining music performance from …

An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical
experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more. Musical …

This article reports on a 10-year longitudinal study of children's musical identity, their
instrumental practice, and subsequent achievement and motivation for playing music. Before …

Embodied approaches to cognition conceive of mental life as emerging from the ongoing
relationship between neural and extra-neural resources. The latter include, first and …

The body of research examining deliberate practice and self-regulation in musical
instruction has grown extensively over the past several decades, while at the same time …

Recent technological developments are having a significant impact on musical instruments
and singing voice learning. A proof is the number of successful software applications that …

Drawing on skill learning research in various fields, I argue that memory retrieval routines
that individual learners have established prior to communicative practice, in either the …

There is general agreement that music is a universal trait of humankind, that Homo sapiens
as a species has the propensity for musical development and that musical potential is as …

In the following study, we have developed an assessment instrument for the practice-
dependent skill of analytical hearing following a strict test theoretical validation, resulting in …

Musical performance anxiety (MPA) occurs throughout musicians' careers. The existing
literature on coping with MPA is underdeveloped in its understanding of how college …