In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider
music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different …

The current review addresses two internal clock models that have dominated discussions in
timing research for the last decades. More specifically, it discusses whether the central or the …

Music can be thought of as a dynamic path over time. In most cases, the rhythmic structure of
this path, such as specific sequences of strong and weak beats or recurring patterns, allows …

Knowledge about musicians' attentional focus may shed more light on why some succeed in
demonstrating their optimal performance under pressure while others fail to do so. In …

Violin bowing is a specialised sound-producing action, which may be affected by
psychological performance techniques. In sport, attentional focus impacts motor …

The present contribution provides readers from diverse fields of psychology with a new and
comprehensive model for the understanding of the characteristics of music ensembles. The …

Chess experts have repeatedly demonstrated exceptional recall of chessboards, which is
weakened by disruption of the chessboard. However, chess experts still perform better than …

Jazz musicians rely on different skills than do classical musicians for successful
performances. We investigated the working memory span of classical and jazz student …

We examined the relationship between interval identification skill and error detection skill in
preservice teachers, accounting for timbral differences by including piano and vocal stimuli …

When attention is divided during memory encoding, performance tends to suffer. The nature
of this performance decrement, however, is domain-dependent and often governed by …