Children's engagement in music practice is associated with enhancements in literacy-
related language skills, as demonstrated by multiple reports of correlation across these two …

This textbook provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion, using an
overarching organizational scheme of how biological, psychological, and environmental …

Music is core to human experience, yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music
perception remain unknown. We analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography …

Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

Why do people listen to music? Over the past several decades, scholars have proposed
numerous functions that listening to music might fulfill. However, different theoretical …

It is usually assumed that modern language is a recent phenomenon, coinciding with the
emergence of modern humans themselves. Many assume as well that this is the result of a …

It has long been debated which aspects of music perception are universal and which are
developed only after exposure to a specific musical culture [1–5]. Here, we report a …

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 …

Research seeking a scientific foundation for the theory of art appreciation has raised
controversies at the intersection of the social and cognitive sciences. Though equally …