The discovery of audiovisual mirror neurons in monkeys gave rise to the hypothesis that
premotor areas are inherently involved not only when observing actions but also when …

The classical, disembodied approach to music cognition conceptualizes action and
perception as separate, peripheral processes. In contrast, embodied accounts of music …

Playing a musical instrument requires efficient auditory and motor processing. Fast feed
forward and feedback connections that link the acoustic target to the corresponding motor …

We examined whether facial expressions of performers influence the emotional
connotations of sung materials, and whether attention is implicated in audio-visual …

Background The perceptual-cognitive mechanisms and neural correlates of Absolute Pitch
(AP) are not fully understood. The aim of this fMRI study was to examine the neural network …

This paper presents Arpège, a progressive multitouch input technique for learning chords,
as well as a robust recognizer and guidelines for building large chord vocabularies …

Gesture-to-sound mapping is generally defined as the association between gestural and
sound parameters. This article describes an approach that brings forward the perception …

Evidence from language, visual and sensorimotor learning suggests that training early in life
is more effective. The present work explores the hypothesis that learning during sensitive …

Humans can easily extract the rhythm of a complex sound, like music, and move to its
regular beat, like in dance. These abilities are modulated by musical training and vary …

This chapter considers the neural basis of musical experience alongside theories of the
embodied nature of consciousness. Drawing on previous theoretical work on the role of the …