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 …

Tinnitus is a considered to be an auditory phantom phenomenon, a persistent conscious
percept of a salient memory trace, externally attributed, in the absence of a sound source. It …

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied
experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In …

From an early age, musicians learn complex motor and auditory skills (eg, the translation of
visually perceived musical symbols into motor commands with simultaneous auditory …

Research on how the brain processes music is emerging as a rich and stimulating area of
investigation of perception, memory, emotion, and performance. Results emanating from …

Music perception involves complex brain functions underlying acoustic analysis, auditory
memory, auditory scene analysis, and processing of musical syntax and semantics …

Research has revealed structural and functional differences in the brains of adult
instrumental musicians compared to those of matched nonmusician controls, with …

To investigate cortical auditory and motor coupling in professional musicians, we compared
the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activity of seven pianists to seven non …

Sensory working memory consists of the short-term storage of sensory stimuli to guide
behaviour. There is increasing evidence that elemental sensory dimensions—such as object …

Human dance was investigated with positron emission tomography to identify its systems-
level organization. Three core aspects of dance were examined: entrainment, meter and …