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 …

Converging evidence has demonstrated that musical training is associated with improved
perceptual and cognitive skills, including executive functions and general intelligence …

Music is a non-verbal human language, built on logical, hierarchical structures, that offers
excellent opportunities to explore how the brain processes complex spatiotemporal auditory …

Objective Memory is the faculty responsible for encoding, storing and retrieving information,
comprising several sub-systems such as sensory memory (SM) and working memory (WM) …

Cognitive aging is characterized by the gradual decline of a number of abilities, such as
attention, executive functioning, and memory. Research on memory aging has reported age …

Mental practice (MP) in music refers to the ability to rehearse music in the mind without any
muscular movements or acoustic feedback. While previous studies have shown effects of the …

Brain network analysis represents a powerful technique to gain insights into the connectivity
profile characterizing individuals with different levels of fluid intelligence (G f). Several …

Objective Depression is a state of aversion to activity and low mood that affects behaviour,
thoughts, feelings and sense of well-being. Moreover, the individual depression trait is …

Musical timbre is often described using terms from non-auditory senses, mainly vision and
touch; but it is not clear whether crossmodality in timbre semantics reflects multisensory …

The major mode conveys positive emotion, whereas the minor mode conveys negative
emotion. However, previous studies have primarily focused on the emotions induced by …