Hierarchical structure with nested nonlocal dependencies is a key feature of human language and can be identified theoretically in most pieces of tonal music. However, previous studies have argued against the perception of such structures in music. Here, we show processing of nonlocal dependencies in music. We presented chorales by J. S. Bach and modified versions in which the hierarchical stru...

The motivation for developing a toolbox for perception-based music analysis starts from the observation that much of the world music production (seen over different cultures and time periods) has no score representation, and that if a score representation is available, it still represents but a small percentage of what musical communication really is about. A sonological analysis of musical sou...

The paper presents a new dataset that captures the effect of mood on visual and auditory perception of music. With an online survey, we have collected a dataset of over 6600 responses capturing users’ mood, emotions evoked and expressed by music and the perception of color with regard to emotions and music. We describe the methodology of gathering the responses and present two new models for ca...

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Musicians have increased resilience to the effects of noise on speech perception and its neural underpinnings. We do not know, however, how early in life these enhancements arise. We compared auditory brainstem responses to speech in noise in 32 preschool children, half of whom were engaged in music training. Thirteen children returned for testing one year later, permitting the first longitudin...

Crossmodal music-to-color correspondences are mediated by emotion for classical music (Palmer et al., 2013) and diverse other genres. People tend to choose colors as going best with music when both have similar emotional associations (e.g., happy-looking colors go best with happy-sounding music). Lower level musical stimuli, including single-line melodies, two-note intervals, and instrumental t...

Background and Aims Mental imagery has been a subject of investigation for a considerable time. Recent investigations suggest that there is overlap in the electrical brain activations for imagination and perception of music (Schaefer et al., 2009, 2011a; Vlek et al., 2011). The current work is a new analysis of four datasets that investigate imagination of music, aiming to clarify the common pr...

In the current study we use electroencephalography (EEG) to detect heard music from the brain signal, hypothesizing that the time structure in music makes it especially suitable for decoding perception from EEG signals. While excluding music with vocals, we classified the perception of seven different musical fragments of about three seconds, both individually and cross-participants, using only...

Rāgas in Indian Art Music have a florid dynamism associated with them. Owing to their inherent structural intricacies, the endeavor of mapping melodic contours to musical notation becomes cumbersome. We explore the potential of mapping, through quantization of melodic contours and listening test of synthesized music, to capture the nuances of rāgas. We address both Hindustani and Carnatic music...

PREVIOUS MUSIC AND EMOTION RESEARCH SUGGESTS that individual differences in empathy, alexithymia, personality traits, and musical expertise might play a role in music-perceived emotions. In this study, we investigated the relationship between these individual characteristics and the ability of participants to recognize five basic emotions (happiness, sadness, tenderness, fear, and anger) convey...