Neural resonance theory proposes that music is not a mental image of the sounds we hear but actual physical vibrations ...

Western ears consider a pitch at double the frequency of a lower pitch to be the same note, an octave higher. The Tsimane’, an indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon basin, do not. “If you only test ...

Electrophysiological studies have investigated predictive processing in music by examining event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by the violation of musical expectations. While several studies have ...

Musical signals are complex periodic waveforms characterized by the sum of different frequencies. In a harmonic complex tone, the lowest frequency is called fundamental frequency (f0), while the other ...

When two notes are an octave apart, one has double the frequency of the other yet we perceive them as being the same note – a “C” for example. Why is this? Readers give their take This question has a ...