Music is a universal feature of human societies, partly owing to its power to evoke strong
emotions and influence moods. During the past decade, the investigation of the neural …

Human interaction often requires simultaneous precision and flexibility in the coordination of
rhythmic behaviour between individuals engaged in joint activity, for example, playing a …

It has been suggested that a key function of music during its development and spread
amongst human populations was its capacity to create and strengthen social bonds amongst …

Moving in synchrony leads to cooperative behavior and feelings of social closeness, and
dance (involving synchronization to others and music) may cause social bonding, possibly …

In the age of the Internet and with the dramatic proliferation of mobile listening technologies,
music has unprecedented global distribution and embeddedness in people's lives. It is a …

Moving to music is an essential human pleasure particularly related to musical groove.
Structurally, music associated with groove is often characterised by rhythmic complexity in …

Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles
of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …

In this paper we adopt Sterelny's (2010) framework of the scaffolded mind, and his related
dimensional approach, to highlight the many ways in which human affectivity (and not just …

Musical training has recently gained additional interest in education as increasing
neuroscientific research demonstrates its positive effects on brain development …

Our sense that a waltz is" in three" or a blues song is" in four with a shuffle" comes from our
sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of our musical …