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Dissecting an Earworm: Melodic Features and Song Popularity Predict Involuntary Musical Imagery [PDF]
This study examined whether a song's popularity and melodic features might also help to explain whether it becomes involuntary musical imagery, using a dataset of tunes that were named as earworms by 3,000 survey participants.
Neurosciences and Music: Part 2
Special issue of the APA journal Psychomusicology, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2015. The articles span perceptual, cognitive, affective, neurological, and therapeutic aspects of music, using an array of neuroimaging approaches, statistical approaches, and paradigms.
Neurosciences and Music
Special issue of the APA journal Psychomusicology, Vol. 22, No. 2, December 2012. Includes articles about polyphony, rhythmic ability, metricality, musical encoding and recall in Alzheimer's disease, pitch identification in children with visual impairment, and music perception in those with cochlear implants.
