Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher, & Rom Harré, Psychology of music: From sound to significance. Hove, UK: Psychology Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-84169-868-7 (hardcover)

HANDBOOK of PSYCHOLOGY VOLUME 7 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

The Psychology of Music

The psychology of music is a subfield of psychology that addresses questions of how the mind responds to, imagines, controls the performance of, and evaluates music. The history of this sub field has been greatly influenced by the major trends and develop­ ments in the parent discipline, and the organization of this chapter follows the tradi tional rubrics of that history. Earlier in the twenti...

The Psychology of Music

The Psychology of Music

Music is a species-specific communication system that develops under a complex set of genetic constraints and environmental input. As with language, some features of musical perception, such as the use of hierarchical pitch and time structures to organize successive sound events, appear to be essentially universal and rest on general capacities and constraints of the human nervous system. And, ...

Replication in music psychology

In this article, we address the current state and general role of replication in empirical sciences in general and music psychology in particular. We argue that replication should be an integral part of the quality management of science because it helps to improve and maintain the general benefit of empirical sciences by enhancing the confidence in scientific phenomena and theories. Replicating...