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 …
M Lehne, S Koelsch - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
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 …
RJ Zatorre - Annals of the new York Academy of Sciences, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …
MH Thaut - Progress in brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …
T Siman-Tov, RY Granot, O Shany, N Singer… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Predictive coding is an increasingly influential and ambitious concept in neuroscience viewing the brain as a 'hypothesis testing machine'that constantly strives to minimize …