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Music Perception (general)           Pitch          Loudness

Harmony          Melody          Rhythm          Timbre      

         Tempo, Duration, & Structure          Music & Language    Musical Imagery      Emotion & Meaning                

Evolution & Development        Amusia & Other Deficits           Plasticity          Musicians' Brains

 

Music Perception (general)

Andrade PE & Bhattacharya J. Brain tuned to music. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2003, 96: 284-287. PDF

Arikan MK, et al. Music effects on event-related potentials of humans on the basis of cultural environment. Neuroscience Letters 1999, 268: 21-24. PDF

Bhattacharya J & Petsche H. Universality in the brain while listening to music. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 2001, 268: 2423-2433. PDF

Bhattacharya J, Petsche H & Pereda E. Long-range synchrony in the gamma band: Role in music perception. The Journal of Neuroscience 2001, 21(16): 6329-6337. PDF

Deutsch D. Music perception. Frontiers in Bioscience 2007, 12: 4473-4482. PDF

Eisencraft T, de Miranda MF & Schochat E. Comparing middle latency response with and without music. Revista Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia 2006, 72(4): 465-9. PDF

Evers S, et al. The cerebral haemodynamics of music perception: A transcranial Doppler sonography study. Brain 1999, 122: 75-85. PDF

Formisano E, et al. Mirror-symmetric tonotopic maps in human primary auditory cortex. Neuron 2003, 40: 859-869. PDF

Griffiths TD. Human complex sound analysis. Clinical Science 1999, 96: 231-234. PDF

Griffiths TD, et al. Frontal processing and auditory perception. NeuroReport 2000, 11(5): 919-922. PDF

Griffiths TD & Warren JD. The planum temporale as a computational hub.Trends in Neuroscience 2002, 25(7): 348-353. PDF

Gunji A, et al. Magnetoencephalographic study of the cortical activity elicited by human voice. Neuroscience Letters 2003, 348: 13-16. PDF

Guttman SE, Gilroy LA & Blake R. Hearing what the eyes see: Auditory encoding of visual temporal sequences. Psychological Science 2005, 16(3): 228-235. PDF

Hooper SL, Buchman E & Hobbs KH. A computational role for slow conductances: Single-neuron models that measure duration. Nature Neuroscience 2002, 5(6): 552-556. PDF

Hugdahl K, et al. Brain activation during dichotic presentation of consonant-vowel and musical instrument stimuli: A 15O PET study. Neuropsychologia 1999, 37: 431-440. PDF

Iakovides SA, et al. Psychophysiology and psychoacoustics of music: Perception of complex sound in normal subjects and psychiatric patients. Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry 2004, 3:6. PDF

Jackendoff R & Lerdahl F. The capacity for music: What is it, and what's special about it? Cognition 2006, 100: 33-72. PDF

Janata P & Grafton ST. Swinging in the brain: Shared neural substrates for behaviors related to sequencing and music. Nature Neuroscience 2003, 6(7): 682-687. PDF

Janata P, Van Horn, Leman, Tillman. The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying western music Science 2002 298(2167). PDF

Julicher F, Andor D & Duke T. Physical basis of two-tone interference in hearing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2001, 98(16): 9080-9085. PDF

Koelsch S, et al. Electric brain responses reveal gender differences in music processing. NeuroReport 2003, 14(5): 709-713. PDF

Kraemer DJM, et al. Sound of silence activates auditory cortex. Nature 2005, 434: 158. PDF

Langers DRM, Backes WH & van Dijk P. Representation of lateralization and tonotopy in primary versus secondary human auditory cortex. NeuroImage 2007, 34: 264-273. PDF

Limb CJ. Structural and functional neural correlates of music perception. The Anatomical Record Part A 2006, 288A: 435-446. PDF

Nakamura S, et al. Analysis of music-brain interaction with simultaneous measurement of regional cerebral blood flow and electroencephalogram beta rhythm in human subjects. Neuroscience Letters 1999, 275: 222-226. PDF

Oohashi T, et al. Inaudible high-frequency sounds affect brain activity: Hypersonic effect. Journal of Neurophysiology 2000, 83: 3548-3558. PDF

Paavilainen P, et al. Neuronal populations in the human brain extracting invariant relationships from acoustic variance. Neuroscience Letters 1999, 265: 179-182. PDF

Patel AD & Balaban E. Human auditory cortical dynamics during perception of long acoustic sequences: Phase tracking of carrier frequency by the auditory steady-state response. Cerebral Cortex 2004, 14: 35-46. PDF

Peretz I & Coltheart M. Modularity of music processing. Nature Neuroscience 6(7): 688-691. PDF

Peretz I & Zatorre RJ. Brain organization for music processing. Annual Review of Psychology 2005, 56: 89-114. PDF

Rauschecker JP. Cortical processing of complex sounds. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 1998, 8: 516-521. PDF

Sacks O. The power of music. Brain 2006, 129: 2528-2532. PDF

Schmuckler MA & Gilden DL. Auditory perception of fractal contours. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1993, 19(3): 641-660. PDF

Schön D & Besson M. Visually induced auditory expectancy in music reading: A behavioral and electrophysiology study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2005, 17(4): 694-705. PDF

Shera CA, Guinan JJ Jr. & Oxenham AJ. Revised estimates of human cochlear tuning from otoacoustic and behavioral measurements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2002, 99(5): 3318-3323. PDF

Sridharan D, et al. Neural dynamics of event segmentation in music: Converging evidence for dissociable vental and dorsal networks. Neuron 2007, 55: 521-532. PDF

Szpunar KK, Schellenberg EG & Pliner P. Liking and memory for musical stimuli as a function of exposure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 2004, 30(2): 370-381. PDF

Talavage TM, et al. Tonotopic organization in human auditory cortex revealed by progressions of frequency sensitivity. Journal of Neurophysiology 2004, 91: 1282-1296. PDF

Tervaniemi M, et al. The musical brain: Brain waves reveal the neurophysiological basis of musicality in human subjects. Neuroscience Letters 1997, 226: 1-4. PDF

Tervaniemi M & Hughdahl K. Lateralization of auditory-cortex funtions. Brain Research Reviews 2003, 43: 231-246. PDF

Tervaniemi M, et al. Sound processing in amateur musicians and nonmusicians: Event-related potential and behavioral indices. NeuroReport 2006, 17(11): 1225-1228. PDF

Ulanovsky N, et al. Multiple time scales of adaptation in auditory cortex neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience 2004, 24(46): 10440-10453. PDF

Warren JD. Variations on the musical brain. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1999, 92: 571-575. PDF

Warren JD & Griffiths TD. Distinct mechanisms for processing spatial sequences and pitch sequences in the human auditory brain. The Journal of Neuroscience 2003, 23(13): 5799-5804. PDF

Yabe H, et al. Sound perception affected by nonlinear variation of accuracy in memory trace. NeuroReport 2004, 15(18): 2813-2817. PDF

Zatorre RJ & Belin P. Spectral and temporal processing in human auditory cortex. Cerebral Cortex 2001, 11: 946-953. PDF

Zatorre RJ & Krumhansl CL. Mental models and musical minds. Science 2002, 298: 2138-2139. PDF

Zatorre RJ. Music, the food of neuroscience? Nature 2005, 434: 312-315. PDF

Zatorre RJ & Halpern AR. Mental concerts: Musical imagery and auditory cortex. Neuron 2005, 47: 9-12. PDF

Zatorre RJ, Chen JL & Penhune VB. When the brain plays music: Auditory-motor interactions in music perception and production. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2007, 8: 547-558. PDF

van Zuijen TL, et al. Auditory organization of sound sequences by a temporal or numerical regularity: A mismatch negativity study comparing musicians and non-musicians. Cognitive Brain Research 2005, 23: 270-276. PDF

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Pitch

Alcock KJ, et al. Pitch and timing abilities in inherited speech and language impairment. Brain and Language 2000, 75: 34-46. PDF

Alcock KJ, et al. Pitch and timing abilities in adult left-hemisphere-dysphasic and right-hemisphere-damaged subjects. Brain and Language 2000, 75: 47-65. PDF

Baharloo S, et al. Absolute pitch: An approach for identification of genetic and nongenetic components. American Journal of Human Genetics 1998, 62: 224-231. PDF

Baharloo S, et al. Familial aggregation of absolute pitch. American Journal of Human Genetics 2000, 67: 755-758. PDF

Bangert M, et al. Classical conditioned responses to absent tones. BMC Neuroscience 2006, 7:60. PDF

Bendor D & Wang X. The neuronal representation of pitch in primate auditory cortex. Nature 2005, 436(7054): 1161-1165. PDF

Bendor D & Wang X. Cortical representation of pitch in monkeys and humans. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2006, 16(39): 391-399. PDF

Bermudez P & Zatorre RJ. Conditional associative memory for musical stimuli in nonmusicians: Implications for absolute pitch. The Journal of Neuroscience 2005, 25(34): 7718-7723. PDF

Berti S, et al. Different interference effects in musicians and a control group. Experimental Psychology 2006, 53(2): 111-116. PDF

Boltz MG. The processing of temporal and nontemporal information in the remembering of event durations and musical structure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1998, 24(4): 1087-1104. PDF

Bonnel A, et al. Enhanced pitch sensitivity in individuals with autism: A signal detection analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2003, 15(2): 226-235. PDF

Brancucci A & San Martini P. Hemispheric asymmetries in the perception of rapid (timbral) and slow (nontimbral) amplitude fluctuations of complex tones. Neuropsychology 2003, 17(3): 451-457. PDF

Brattico E, et al. Simultaneous storage of two complex temporal sound patterns in auditory sensory memory. NeuroReport 2002, 13(14): 1747-1751. PDF

Brattico E, Tervaniemi M & Picton TW. Effects of brief discrimination-training on the auditory N1 wave. NeuroReport 2003, 14(18): 2489-2492. PDF

Brattico E, et al. Musical scale properties are automatically processed in the human auditory cortex. Brain Research 2006, 1117: 162-174. PDF

Cariani PA & Delgutte B. Neural correlates of the pitch of complex tones. I. Pitch and pitch salience. Journal of Neurophysiology 1996, 76: 1698-1716. PDF

Cariani PA & Delgutte B. Neural correlates of the pitch of complex tones. II. Pitch shift, pitch ambiguity, phase invariance, pitch circularity, rate pitch, and the dominance region for pitch. Journal of Neurophysiololgy 1996, 76(3): 1717-1734. PDF

Crawley EJ, et al. Change detection in multi-voice music: The role of musical structure, musical training, and task demands. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2002, 28(2): 367-378. PDF

Deutsch D. Tones and numbers: Specificity of interference in immediate memory. Science 1970, 168: 1604-1605. PDF

Deutsch D. Effect of repetition of standard and comparison tones on recognition memory for pitch. Journal of Experimental Psychology 1972, 93(1): 156-162. PDF

Deutsch D. Mapping of interactions in the pitch memory store. Science 1972, 175: 1020-1022. PDF

Deutsch D. Interference in memory between tones adjacent in the musical scale. Journal of Experimental Psychology 1973, 100(2): 228-231. PDF

Deutsch D. Error patterns in delayed pitch comparison as a function of relational context. Journal of Experimental Psychology 1974, 103(5): 1027-1034. PDF

Deutsch D & Roll PL. Separate "what" and "where" decision mechanisms in processing a dichotic tonal sequence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1976, 2(1): 23-29. PDF

Deutsch D. Pitch memory: An advantage for the left-handed. Science 1978, 199: 559-560. PDF

Deutsch D. Paradoxes of musical pitch. Scientific American 1992, 88-95. PDF

Deutsch D. The octave illusion revisited again. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2004, 30(2): 355-364. PDF

Deutsch D. Music perception. Frontiers in Bioscience 2007, 12: 4473-4482. PDF

Deutsch D, Hamaoui K & Henthorn T. The glissando illusion and handedness. Neuropsychologia 2007, article in press. PDF

Evarts EV. Effect of auditory cortex ablation in frequency discrimination in monkey. 1951, 443-448. PDF

Formisano E, et al. Mirror-symmetric tonotopic maps in human primary auditory cortex. Neuron 2003, 40: 859-869. PDF

Foxton JM, et al. Training improves acoustic pattern perception. Current Biology 2004, 14: 322-325. PDF

Gaab N, Keenan JP & Schlaug G. The effects of gender on the neural substrates of pitch memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2003, 15(6): 810-820. PDF

Gaab N & Schlaug G. The effect of musicianship on pitch memory in performance matched groups. NeuroReport 2003, 14(18): 2291-2295. PDF

Gaab N, et al. The influence of sleep on auditory learning: A behavioral study. NeuroReport 2004, 15(4): 731-734. PDF

Gaab N, et al. Neural correlates of absolute pitch differ between blind and sighted musicians. NeuroReport 2006, 17(18): 1853-1857. PDF

Gougoux F, et al. Pitch discrimination in the early blind. Nature 2004, 430: 309. PDF

Gregersen PK. Instant recognition: The genetics of pitch perception. American Journal of Human Genetics 1998, 62: 221-223. PDF

Gregersen PK, et al. Early childhood music education and predisposition to absolute pitch: Teasing apart genes and environment. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2000, 98: 280-282. PDF

Griffiths TD, et al. A common neural substrate for the analysis of pitch and duration pattern in segmented sound? NeuroReport 1999, 10: 3825-3830. PDF

Hamilton RH, Pascual-Leone A & Schlaug G. Absolute pitch in blind musicians. NeuroReport 2004, 15(9): 803-806. PDF

He C, Hotson L & Trainor LJ. Mismatch responses to pitch changes in early infancy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2007, 19(5): 878-892. PDF

Henthorn T & Deutsch D. Ethnicity versus early environment: Comment on "Early childhood music education and predisposition to absolute pitch: Teasing apart genes and environment" by Peter K. Gregersen, Elena Kowalsky, Nina Kohn, and Elizabeth West Marvin [2000]. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A 2007, 143A: 102-103. PDF

Hirata Y, Kuriki S & Pantev C. Musicians with absolute pitch show distinct neural activities in the auditory cortex. NeuroReport 1999, 10: 999-1002. PDF

Hirose H, et al. N100m in children possessing absolute pitch. NeuroReport 2003, 14(6): 899-903. PDF

Hirose H, et al. N100m in adults possessing absolute pitch. NeuroReport 2004, 15(9): 1383-1386. PDF

Jaramillo M, et al. Are different kinds of acoustic features processed differently for speech and non-speech sounds? Cognitive Brain Research 2001, 12: 459-466. PDF

Jusczyk PW & Krumhansl CL. Pitch and rhythmic patterns affecting infants' sensitivity to musical phrase structure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance1993, 19(3): 627-640. PDF

Houtsma AJM & Goldstein JL. The central origin of the pitch of complex tones: Evidence from musical interval recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1971, 51: 520-528. PDF

Johnsrude IS, Penhune VB & Zatorre RJ. Functional specificity in the right human auditory cortex for perceiving pitch direction. Brain 2000, 123: 155-163. PDF

Jones SJ, Pato MV & Sprague L. Spectro-temporal analysis of complex tones: Two cortical processes dependent on retention of sounds in the long auditory store. Clinical Neurophysiology 2000, 111: 1569-1576. PDF

Jones SJ, et al. Auditory evoked potentials to spectro-temporal modulation of complex tones in normal subjects and patients with severe brain injury. Brain 2000, 123: 1007-1016. PDF

Kaas JH, Hackett TA, & Tramo MJ. Auditory processing in primate cerebral cortex. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 1999, 9: 164-170. PDF

Krishnan, et al. Encoding of pitch in the human brainstem is sensitive to language experience. Cognitive Brain Research 2005, 25: 161-168. PDF

Krumhansl CL & Shepard RN. Quantification of the hierarchy of tonal functions within a diatonic context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1979, 5(4): 579-594. PDF

Krumhansl CL & Iverson P. Perceptual interactions between musical pitch and timbre. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1992, 18(3): 739-751. PDF

Krumhansl CL. Rhythm and pitch in music cognition. Psychological Bulletin 2000, 126: 159-179. PDF

Itoh K, et al. Electrophysiological correlates of absolute pitch and relative pitch. Cerebral Cortex 2005, 15: 760-769. PDF

Magne C, Schön D & Besson M. Musician children detect pitch violations in both music and language better than nonmusician children: Behavioral and electrophysiological approaches. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2006, 18(2): 199-211. PDF

Micheyl C, et al. Perceptual organization of tone sequences in the auditory cortex of awake macaques. Neuron 2005, 48: 139-148. PDF

Morel A, Garraghty PE, & Kaas JH. Tonotopic organization, architectonic fields, and connections of auditory cortex in macaque monkeys. Journal of Comparative Neurology 1993, 335: 437-459. PDF

Novitski N, et al. Frequency discrimination at different frequency levels as indexed by electrophysiological and behavioral measures. Cognitive Brain Research 2004, 20: 26-36. PDF

Ohgushi K & Ano Y. The relationship between musical pitch and temporal responses of auditory nerve fibers. Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Science 2005, 24: 99-101. PDF

Paavilainen P, et al. Neuronal populations in the human brain extracting invariant relationships from acoustic variance. Neuroscience Letters 1999, 265: 179-182. PDF

Pantev C, Hoke M, Lutkenhoner B, & Lehnertz K. Tonotopic organization of the auditory cortex: Pitch versus frequency representation. Science 1989, 246: 486-488. PDF

Paquette C, Bourassa M & Peretz I. Left ear advantage in pitch perception of complex tones without energy at the fundamental frequency. Neuropsychologia 1996, 34(2): 153-157. PDF

Patel AD & Balaban E. Temporal patterns of human cortical activity reflect tone sequence structure. Nature 2000, 404: 80-84. PDF

Patel AD & Balaban E. Human pitch perception is reflected in the timing of stimulus-related cortical activity. Nature Neuroscience 2001, 4(8): 839-844. PDF

Pato MV & Jones SJ. Cortical processing of complex tone stimuli: Mismatch negativity at the end of a period of rapid pitch modulation. Cognitive Brain Research 1999, 7: 295-306. PDF

Pato MV, et al. Mismatch negativity to single and multiple pitch-deviant tones in regular and pseudo-random complex tone sequences. Clinical Neurophysiology 2002, 113: 519-527. PDF

Patterson RD, et al. The processing of temporal pitch and melody information in auditory cortex. Neuron 2002, 36: 767-776. PDF

Peretz I, Brattico E & Tervaniemi M. Abnormal electrical brain responses to pitch in congenital amusia. Annals of Neurology 2005, 58: 478-482. PDF

Perry DW, et al. Localization of cerebral activity during simple singing. NeuroReport 1999, 10: 3979-3984. PDF

Phillips DP, et al . Level-dependent representation of stimulus frequency in cat primary auditory cortex. Experimental Brain Research 1994, 102: 210-226. PDF

Poulin-Charronnat B, Bigand E & Koelsch S. Processing of musical syntax tonic versus subdominant: An event related potential study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2006, 18(9): 1545-1554. PDF

Ross DA, Olson IR & Gore JC. Cortical plasticity in an early blind musician: An fMRI study. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2003, 21: 821-828. PDF

Ross D, Choi J & Purves D. Musical intervals in speech. Proccedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007, 104(23): 9852-9857. PDF

Ross J, Tervaniemi M & Näätänen R. Neural mechanisms of the octave illusion: Electrophysiological evidence for central origin. NeuroReport 1996, 8: 303-306. PDF

Saarinen J, et al. Representation of abstract attributes of auditory stimuli in the human brain. NeuroReport 1992, 3: 1149-1151. PDF

Saffran JR & Griepentrog GJ. Absolute pitch in infant auditory learning: Evidence for developmental reorganization. Developmental Psychology 2001, 37(1): 74-85. PDF

Sanders LD & Poeppel D. Local and global auditory processing: Behavioral and ERP evidence. Neuropsychologia 2007, 45: 1172-1186. PDF

Schneider B, Trehub SE & Bull D. High-frequency sensitivity in infants. Science 1980, 207: 1003-1004. PDF

Schneider P, et al. Structural and functional asymmetry of lateral Heschl's gyrus reflects pitch perception preference. Nature Neuroscience 2005, 8(9): 1241-1247. PDF

Schön D & Besson M. Processing pitch and duration in music reading: A RT-ERP study. Neuropsychologia 2002, 40: 868-878. PDF

Schwartz DA, Howe CQ & Purves D. The statistical structure of human speech sounds predicts musical universals. The Journal of Neuroscience 2003, 23(18): 7160-7168. PDF

Schwarz DWF & Tomlinson RWW. Spectral response patterns of auditory cortex neurons to harmonic complex tones in alert monkey (Macaca mulatta). Journal of Neurophysiology 1990, 64: 282-298. PDF

Shahin A, et al. Enhancement of neuroplastic P2 and N1c auditory evoked potentials in musicians. The Journal of Neuroscience 2003, 23(12): 5545-5552. PDF

Shahin A, et al. Moldulation of P2 auditory-evoked responses by the spectral complexity of musical sounds. NeuroReport 2005, 16(16): 1781-1785. PDF

Shepard RN. Circularity in judgments of relative pitch. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1964, 36: 2346-2353. PDF

Smith NA & Schmuckler MA. The perception of tonal structure through the differentiation and organization of pitches. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2004, 30(2): 268-286. PDF

Snyder JS & Large EW. Tempo dependence of middle- and long-latency auditory responses: Power and phase modulation of the EEG at multiple time-scales. Clinical Neurophysiology 2004, 115: 1885-1895. PDF

Steinke WR, Cuddy LL & Holden RR. Dissociation of musical tonality and pitch memory from nonmusical cognitive abilities. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology 1997, 51(4): 316-334. PDF

Tervaniemi M, Maury S & Näätänen R. Neural representations of abstract stimulus features in the human brain as reflected by the mismatch negativity. NeuroReport 1994, 5: 844-846. PDF

Tervaniemi M, Schröger E & Näätänen R. Pre-attentive processing of spectrally complex sounds with asynchronous onsets: An event-related potential study with human subjects. Neuroscience Letters 1997, 227: 197-200. PDF

Tervaniemi M, et al. Harmonic partials facilitate pitch discrimination in humans: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Neuroscience Letters 2000, 279: 29-32. PDF

Tervaniemi M, et al. Effects of spectral complexity and sound duration on automatic complex-sound pitch processing in humans: A mismatch negativity study. Neuroscience Letters 2000, 290: 66-70. PDF

Tervaniemi M, et al. From air oscillations to music and speech: Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for fine-tuned neural networks in audition. The Journal of Neuroscience 2006, 26(34): 8647-8652. PDF

Thompson WF, Hall MD & Pressing J. Illusory conjunctions of pitch and duration in unfamiliar tone sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2001, 27(1): 128-140. PDF

Tramo MJ, Shah GD, & Braida LD. Functional role of auditory cortex in frequency processing and pitch perception. Journal of Neurophysiology 2002, 87: 122-139. PDF

Tramo MJ, et al. Neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of pitch perception: Auditory cortex. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2005, 1060: 148-174. PDF

Vines BW, Schnider NM & Schlaug G. Testing for causality with transcranial direct current stimulation: Pitch memory and the left supramarginal gyrus. NeuroReport2006, 17(10): 1047-1050. PDF

Warren JD & Griffiths TD. Distinct mechanisms for processing spatial sequences and pitch sequences in the human auditory brain. The Journal of Neuroscience 2003, 23(13): 5799-5804. PDF

Warren JD, et al. Separating pitch chroma and pitch height in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2003, 100(17): 10038-10042. PDF

Warrier CM & Zatorre RJ. Right temporal cortex is critical for utilization of melodic contextual cues in a pitch constancy task. Brain 2004, 127: 1616-1625. PDF

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Zatorre RJ. Category-boundary effects and speeded sorting with a harmonic musical-interval continuum: Evidence for dual processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1983, 9(5): 739-752. PDF

Zatorre RJ. Pitch perception of complex tones and human temporal-lobe function. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1988, 84: 566-572. PDF

Zatorre RJ, et al. Lateralization of phonetic and pitch discrimination in speech processing. Science 1992, 256: 846-849. PDF

Zatorre RJ, Evans AC & Meyer E. Neural mechanisms underlying melodic perception and memory for pitch. The Journal of Neuroscience1994, 14(4): 1908-1919. PDF

Zatorre R. How do our brains analyze temporal structure in sound? Nature Neuroscience 1998, 1(5): 343-345. PDF

Zatorre RJ, et al. Functional anatomy of musical processing in listeners with absolute pitch and relative pitch. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1998, 95: 3172-3177. PDF

Zatorre RJ. Absolute pitch: A model for understanding the influence of genes and development on neural and cognitive function. Nature Neuroscience 2003, 6(7): 692-695. PDF

van Zuijen TL, et al. Grouping of sequential sounds: An event-related potential study comparing musicians and nonmusicians. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2004, 16(2): 331-338. PDF

van Zuijen TL, et al. Implicit, intuitive, and explicit knowledge of abstract regularities in a sound sequence: An event-related brain potenial study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2006, 18(8): 1292-1303. PDF

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Harmony

Beisteiner R, et al. A marker for differentiation of capabilities for processing of musical harmonies as detected by magnetoencephalography in musicians. Neuroscience Letters 1999, 277: 37-40. PDF

Bharucha JJ & Stoeckig K. Reaction time and musical expectancy: Priming of chords. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1986, 12(4): 403-410. PDF

Bigand E, et al. Sensory versus cognitive components in harmonic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2003, 29(1): 159-171. PDF

Blood AJ, et al. Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions. Nature Neuroscience 1999, 2: 382-387. PDF

Brown S, et al. The song system of the human brain. Cognitive Brain Research 2004, 20: 363-375. PDF

Castellano MA, Bharucha JJ & Krumhansl CL. Tonal hierarchies in the music of North India. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 1984, 13(3): 394-412. PDF

Deutsch D. Two issues concerning tonal hierarchies: Comment on Castellano, Bharucha, and Krumhansl. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 1984, 113(3): 413-416. PDF

Deutsch D. Music perception. Frontiers in Bioscience 2007, 12: 4473-4482. PDF

Fishman, et al. Consonance and dissonance of musical chords: Neural correlates in auditory cortex of monkeys and humans. Journal of Neurophysiology 2001, 86: 2761-2788. PDF

Hall MD & Pastore RE. Musical duplex perception: Perception of figurally good chords with subliminal distinguishing tones. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1992, 18(3): 752-762. PDF

Hébert S, Peretz I & Gagnon L. Perceiving the tonal ending of tune excerpts: The role of pre-existing representation and musical expertise. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology 1995, 49(2): 193-209. PDF

Itoh K, Suwazono S & Nakada T. Cortical processing of musical consonance: An evoked potential study. NeuroReport 2003, 14(18): 2303-2306. PDF

Janata P, et al. The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music. Science 2002, 298: 2167-2170. PDF

Justus TC & Bharucha JJ. Modularity in musical processing: The automaticity of harmonic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2001, 27: 1000-1011. PDF

Koelsch S, Schröger E & Tervaniemi M. Superior pre-attentive auditory processing in musicians. NeuroReport 1999, 10: 1309-1313. PDF

Koelsch S, et al. Brain indices of music processing: "Nonmusicians" are musical. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2000, 12(3): 520-541. PDF

Koelsch S, et al. Differentiating ERAN and MMN: An ERP study. NeuroReport 2001, 12(7): 1385-1389. PDF

Koelsch S & Mulder J. Electric brain responses to inappropriate harmonies during listening to expressive music. Clinical Neurophysiology 2002, 113: 862-869. PDF

Koelsch S, et al. Processing tonal modulations: An ERP study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2003, 15(8): 1149-1159. PDF

Koelsch, S. Neural substrates of processing syntax and semantics in music. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2005, 15: 207-212. PDF

Koelsch S, et al. Interaction between syntax processing in language and in music: An ERP study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2005, 17(10): 1565-1577. PDF

Krumhansl CL & Shepard RN. Quantification of the hierarchy of tonal functions within a diatonic context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1979, 5(4): 579-594. PDF

Krumhansl CL, Bharucha JJ & Kessler EJ. Perceived harmonic structure of chords in three related musical keys. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1982, 8(1): 24-36. PDF

Leino S, et al. Representation of harmony rules in the human brain: Further evidence from event-related potentials. Brain Research 2007, 1142: 169-177. PDF

Loui P, et al. Effects of attention on the neural processing of harmonic syntax in Western music. Cognitive Brain Research 2005, 25: 678-687. PDF

Maess B, et al. Musical syntax is processed in Broca's area: An MEG study. Nature Neuroscience 2001, 4: 540-545. PDF

Moore BCJ, Peters RW & Glasberg BR. Thresholds for the detection of inharmonicity in complex tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1985, 77: 1861-1867. PDF

Neuloh G & Curio G. Does familiarity facilitate the cortical processing of music sounds? NeuroReport 2004, 15(16): 2471-2475. PDF

Patel AD, et al. Processing syntactic relations in language and music: An event-related potential study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1998, 10: 717-733. PDF

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Melody

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Rhythm

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Timbre

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Tempo, Duration, & Structure

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Music & Language

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Emotion & Meaning

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Evolution & Development

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Amusia & Other Deficits

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Plasticity

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Musicians' Brains

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