The diverse forms and functions of human music place obstacles in the way of an evolutionary reconstruction of its origins. In the absence of any obvious homologues of human music among our closest primate relatives, theorizing about its origins, in order to make progress, needs constraints from the nature of music, the capacities it engages, and the contexts in which it occurs. Here we propose...

Psychophysiological studies with music have not examined what exactly in the music might be responsible for the observed physiological phenomena. The authors explored the relationships between 11 structural features of 16 musical excerpts and both self-reports of felt pleasantness and arousal and different physiological measures (respiration, skin conductance, heart rate). Overall, the relation...

The processing of rhythmic events in music is influenced by the induced metrical structure. Two mechanisms underlying this may be temporal attending and temporal prediction. Temporal fluctuations in attentional resources may influence the processing of rhythmic events by heightening sensitivity at metrically strong positions. Temporal predictions may attenuate responses to events that are highl...

Abstract Shaping events at the microlevel of rhythm is an important aspect many groove-based musics. In present study, we explore interconnectedness musical parameters such as timing, attack shape, timbre and relative intensity in creating groove through investigating musicians producers’ discourse five genres (jazz, samba, electronic dance music, hip-hop traditional Scandinavian fiddle music)....

OBJECTIVE To present a male patient who performed arm banging on his face during sleep every night since 7 months of age. METHODS Clinical course of this patient with electroencephalographic recording with video recording at 23 months of age was shown. RESULTS His arm banging began at the age of 7 months and showed no complete remission at the age of 57 months of age, although clonazepam re...

Music can trigger emotional responses in a more direct way than any other stimulus. In particular, music-evoked pleasure involves brain networks that are part of the reward system. Furthermore, rhythmic music stimulates the basal ganglia and may trigger involuntary movements to the beat. In the present study, we created a continuously playing rhythmic, dance floor-like composition where the amb...

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence for functional interactions of the auditory and the motor system in music perception. Based on that we hypothesized that altered music perception in patients with a movement disorder, here Huntington's disease (HD), compared to controls should be present. Additionally, there should be also a relation between areas associated with the assessment of musical...

Music separation methods are more demanding and complex, demanding system “training,” user designation of special music features, and audio processing time to support their complicated frameworks. Pattern extraction from music strings is an complex problem. The repeated sequence extracted from music strings can be used as features for music extracted or compared. various works on music pattern ...

As language rhythm relies partly on general acoustic properties, such as intensity and duration, mastering two languages with distinct rhythmic properties (i.e., stress position) may enhance musical rhythm perception. We investigated whether competence in a second language (L2) with different rhythmic properties than a L1 affects musical rhythm aptitude. Turkish early (TELG) and late learners (...