Musical training has emerged as a useful framework for the investigation of training-related
plasticity in the human brain. Learning to play an instrument is a highly complex task that …

Millions of children are impacted by neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), which unfold
early in life, have varying genetic etiologies and can involve a variety of specific or …

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 …

Although a growing literature points to substantial variation in speech/language abilities
related to individual differences in musical abilities, mainstream models of communication …

Humans possess an ability to perceive and synchronize movements to the beat in music
('beat perception and synchronization'), and recent neuroscientific data have offered new …

In Refrains for Moving Bodies, Derek P. McCormack explores the kinds of experiments with
experience that can take place in the affective spaces generated when bodies move …

The urge to move to music is universal among humans. Unlike visual art, which is manifest
across space, music is manifest across time. When listeners get carried away by the music …

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 …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

Entrainment of cortical rhythms to acoustic rhythms has been hypothesized to be the neural
correlate of pulse and meter perception in music. Dynamic attending theory first proposed …