Product Description: Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book, Motion and Emotion (OUP, 2001) was critically and commercially successful and stimulated much further work in this area...read more

Product Description: What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music makers, and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves)...read more

Product Description: In the 20 years since publication of John Sloboda's landmark volume The Musical Mind, music psychology has developed as a vibrant area of research - exerting influence on areas as diverse as music education and cognitive neuroscience...read more

Product Description: The position of emotion in music has been a subject of considerable interest and debate. However emotional aspects of music have received surprising little attention in the 45 years since the publication of Leonard Meyer's classic work 'Emotion and meaning in music...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Where most of the literature in the psychology of music has focused on the processes involved when listening to music, little has been written about the processes involved in making music. Reissued by popular demand, and for the first time in paperback, Generative Processes: The Psychology of Performance, Improvisation, and Composition brings together leading figures in music psychology to present pioneering studies of the processes by which music is generated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text comprises of reviews of work relating to music and mind. It presents a range of approaches from the psychological through the computational, to the musicological. The reviews were selected from papers submitted at the Third International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition Liege 1994 to illustrate the wide range of perspectives now being adopted in studying how humans make and respond to music...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From where, and by what mechanisms, does an individual's musical ability originate? The interest surrounding this question has recently been heightened by research into prenatal perception of sound, particularly among developmental and music psychologists...read more

Product Description: This book brings together psychological, sociological, and anthropological approaches to core topics in cognition. Leaders in the field present different perspectives on classification, reasoning, socialization, the development of infant cognition and scientific thought, and many other topics...read more

Product Description: This state-of-the-art analysis of the psychology of mathematics concentrates on early competence in various areas of mathematical skill and on the representation of mathematical information. The contributors discuss a wide range of topics, including the development of mathematical skills in infancy, the relation between imaginal and propositional cognitions in children's approaches to arithmetic word problems, and the roles of associative and rule-based knowledge...read more

Product Description: In this survey of our current knowledge concerning the cognitive psychology of music, the author--a psychologist and practicing musician--examines the mental processes involved in composing, performing, listening to, and "understanding" music, and shows how such skills are acquired...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)