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

Processing of meaning is critical for language perception, and therefore the majority of
research on meaning processing has focused on the semantic, lexical, conceptual, and …

Introduction Studies of categorical decision-making attempt to understand behavior by
probing how different features of complex and changing environments guide the selection of …

Listening to music engages the whole brain, thus stimulating cognitive performance in a
range of non-purely musical activities such as language and memory tasks. This article …

Building on existing research into sound symbolism and cross‐modal correspondences, this
article proposes that cross‐modal correspondences—systematic mappings between …

A long-standing debate in cognitive neurosciences concerns the effect of music on verbal
learning and memory. Research in this field has largely provided conflicting results in both …

Several neuroimaging studies of cognitive aging revealed deficits in episodic memory
abilities as a result of prefrontal cortex (PFC) limitations. Improving episodic memory …

Sensory Evaluation of Sound provides a detailed review of the latest sensory evaluation
techniques, specifically applied to the evaluation of sound and audio. This three-part book …

There has been much debate over whether music can convey extra‐musical meaning. The
experiments presented here investigated whether low level musical features, specifically the …

Abstract Effects of music on language processing have been reported separately for syntax
and for semantics. Previous studies have shown that regular musical rhythms can facilitate …