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 …

Do people who speak different languages think differently, even when they are not using
language? To find out, we used nonlinguistic psychophysical tasks to compare mental …

Though auditory pitch is customarily mapped in Western cultures onto spatial verticality
(high–low), both anthropological reports and cognitive studies suggest that pitch may be …

We present the first experimental evidence of a phenomenon in speech communication we
call “analog acoustic expression.” Speech is generally thought of as conveying information …

Independent mobility is one of the main challenges for blind or visually impaired (BVI)
people. In particular, BVI people often need to identify and avoid nearby obstacles, for …

Speakers use vocabulary for spatial verticality and size to describe pitch. A high—low
contrast is common to many languages, but others show contrasts like thick—thin and big …

This study tested to what extent young listeners metaphorically conceptualize basic musical
relations. Ninety children aged 11 (30 attending a music school and 30 Serbian and 30 …

How Music Empowers argues that empowerment is the key to unlocking the long-standing
mystery of how music moves us. Drawing upon cutting-edge research in embodied cognitive …

Parallels between the mathematics of tiling, which describes geometries of visual space,
and neo‐Riemannian theory, which describes geometries of musical space, make it …

Obstacle avoidance is a major challenge during independent mobility for blind or visually
impaired (BVI) people. Typically, BVI people can only perceive obstacles at a short distance …