Music has existed in human societies since prehistory, perhaps because it allows
expression and regulation of emotion and evokes pleasure. In this review, we present …

Music has always played a central role in human culture. The question of how musical
sounds can have such profound emotional and rewarding effects has been a topic of interest …

The sensation of groove has been defined as the pleasurable desire to move to music,
suggesting that both motor timing and reward processes are involved in this experience …

Tension and suspense are powerful emotional experiences that occur in a wide variety of
contexts (eg, in music, film, literature, and everyday life). The omnipresence of tension and …

Emotion-related areas of the brain, such as the medial frontal cortices, amygdala and
striatum are activated during listening to sad or happy music as well as during listening to …

Most people derive pleasure from music. Neuroimaging studies show that the reward system
of the human brain is central to this experience. Specifically, the dorsal and ventral striatum …

The discovery of rhythmic auditory–motor entrainment in clinical populations was a historical
breakthrough in demonstrating for the first time a neurological mechanism linking music to …

The Psychology of Musical Development provides an up-to-date and comprehensive
account of the latest theory, empirical research and applications in the study of musical …

Rhythm as the time structure of music is composed of distinct temporal components such as
pattern, meter, and tempo. Each feature requires different computational processes: meter …

Predictive coding is an increasingly influential and ambitious concept in neuroscience
viewing the brain as a 'hypothesis testing machine'that constantly strives to minimize …