Visual mental imagery has been characterized as an important aspect of our mental life,
which consists of “seeing” in the absence of a sensory stimulus. However, the mechanisms …

A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research—drawing on work in
computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology—offers a promising …

The classical, disembodied approach to music cognition conceptualizes action and
perception as separate, peripheral processes. In contrast, embodied accounts of music …

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, there emerged a radically new kind of music based on
recorded environmental sounds instead of sounds of traditional Western musical …

[1] This essay describes a hypothesis of how music becomes internalized into the bodies
and minds of listeners. The hypothesis underlies a larger theory of musical meaning …

Synchronization has recently received attention as a form of interpersonal interaction that
may affect the affiliative relationships of those engaged in it. While there is evidence to …

Musical sound has great power to make us move, or to create sensations of movement in
our minds. This is obvious from ubiquitous situations of people dancing, marching …

What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does it enter into our experience, and
how do we capture it in our analyses? A compelling approach among works on temporality …

One of the most remarkable achievements of Pierre Schaeffer's musical thought is his
proposal of the sonorous object as the focus of research. The sonorous object is a fragment …

Body movement is integral to both performance and perception of music, and this
dissertation suggests that we also think about music as movement. Based on ideas of …