Revealed more than two millennia ago by Pythagoras, consonance and dissonance (C/D)
are foundational concepts in music theory, perception, and aesthetics. The search for the …

The notion of harmony was first developed in the context of metaphysics before being
applied to the domain of music. However, in recent centuries, the term has often been used …

Music perception is plausibly constrained by universal perceptual mechanisms adapted to
natural sounds. Such constraints could arise from our dependence on harmonic frequency …

The contrast between consonance and dissonance is vital in making music emotionally
meaningful. Consonance typically denotes perceived agreeableness and stability, while …

Most music is temporally organized within a metrical hierarchy, having nested periodic
patterns that give rise to the experience of stronger (downbeat) and weaker (upbeat) events …

The majority of research in the field of music perception has been conducted with Western
participants, and it has remained unclear which aspects of music perception are culture …

A growing body of research shows that the universal capacity for music perception and
production emerges early in development. Possibly building on this predisposition …

Hearing in noise is a core problem in audition, and a challenge for hearing-impaired
listeners, yet the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We explored whether …

The question of simultaneous consonance and dissonance—the relative agreeableness/
stability vs. disagreeableness/instability of pitch combinations—has received a substantial …

Musical properties, such as auditory pitch, are not expressed in the same way across
cultures. In some languages, pitch is expressed in terms of spatial height (high vs. low) …