Through long-term training, music experts acquire complex and specialized sensorimotor
skills, which are paralleled by continuous neuro-anatomical and-functional adaptations. The …

This article reviews research on the effects of music instruction on general cognitive abilities.
The review of more than 75 reports shows (1) the consistency in results pertaining to the …

How Do You Feel? brings together startling evidence from neuroscience, psychology, and
psychiatry to present revolutionary new insights into how our brains enable us to experience …

Music is a highly complex and versatile stimulus for the brain that engages many temporal,
frontal, parietal, cerebellar, and subcortical areas involved in auditory, cognitive, emotional …

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we show for the first time that levels of
musical expertise stepwise modulate higher order brain functioning. This suggests that …

Music is a species-specific communication system that develops under a complex set of
genetic constraints and environmental input. As with language, some features of musical …

Human musical ability is proposed to play a key phylogenetical role in the evolution of
language, and the similarity of hierarchical structure in music and language has led to …

Reactive aggression in response to perceived threat or provocation is part of humans'
adaptive behavioral repertoire. However, high levels of aggression can lead to the violation …

Music Syntax refers to the principle of combining discrete key elements into hierarchical
system. Organization of pitches based on tonality harmony is the most important music …

Using a stress violation paradigm, we investigated whether metrical feet constrain the way
prosodic patterns are processed and evaluated. Processing of correctly versus incorrectly …