How is music represented in the brain? While neuroimaging has revealed some spatial
segregation between responses to music versus other sounds, little is known about the …

Vocal melodies sung without lyrics (la la) are remembered better than instrumental
melodies. What causes the advantage? One possibility is that vocal music elicits subvocal …

“Earworms” have been proposed as a particular type of involuntary musical imagery (INMI)
where musical material is repeated in the mind. The structure of the repetition is investigated …

Recognition memory is better for vocal melodies than instrumental melodies. Here we
examine whether this vocal advantage extends to recall. Thirty-one violinists learned four …

Spontaneous motor cortical activity during passive perception of action has been interpreted
as a sensorimotor simulation of the observed action. There is currently interest in how …

It is currently believed that timbre plays a primary role in the identification of songs from very
brief excerpts of music. However, its specific contribution, and those of other characteristics …

Previous research showed that people are less likely to recognize a recently heard melody if
it has changed timbre. This dissertation investigates how changing timbre influences melody …