Revealed more than two millennia ago by Pythagoras, consonance and dissonance (C/D)
are foundational concepts in music theory, perception, and aesthetics. The search for the …

Infant-directed speech (IDS) refers to the suite of prosodic and structural modifications that
adults use when communicating with infants, as opposed to adults. A number of theories …

In Western tonal music, major and minor modes are recognized as the primary musical
features in eliciting emotional responses. The underlying correlates of this dichotomy in …

In medicine, biomarkers are a metric for disease state. More generally, a biomarker is
anything that can be used as an indicator for a particular disease state or any physiological …

Insights on the neurocognitive particularities of expert individuals have benefited from
language studies on professional simultaneous interpreters (PSIs). Accruing research …

The Neuroaesthetics of Music: A Research Agenda Coming of Age | The Oxford Handbook of
Music and the Brain | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement Oxford Academic …

Understanding how the human brain integrates information from the environment with
intrinsic brain signals to produce individual perspectives is an essential element of …

Auditory predictive processing relies on a complex interaction between environmental,
neurophysiological, and genetic factors. In this view, the mismatch negativity (MMN) and …

This chapter introduces and guides the readers to the second part of this book, starting with
a short summary of basic principles of neurophysiology and moving to surveying the past …

Processing western tonal music may yield distinct brain responses depending on the mode
of the musical compositions. Although subjective feelings in response to major and minor …