Music has existed in human societies since prehistory, perhaps because it allows
expression and regulation of emotion and evokes pleasure. In this review, we present …

The comparative study of music and language is drawing an increasing amount of research
interest. Like language, music is a human universal involving perceptually discrete elements …

The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The
database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

NATIONAL BESTSELLER• With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought
to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies …

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of
humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology …

The music faculty is not a monolithic entity that a person either has or does not. Rather, it
comprises a set of neurally isolable processing components, each having the potential to be …

Multiple disorders of musical abilities can occur after brain damage. Conversely, early brain
anomalies or vast brain injuries may sometimes spare ordinary musical skills in individuals …

I defend a model of the musically extended mind. I consider how acts of “musicking” grant
access to novel emotional experiences otherwise inaccessible. First, I discuss the idea of …

Language is typically viewed as fundamental to human intelligence. Music, while
recognized as a human universal, is often treated as an ancillary ability–one dependent on …