Music Perception

Music Perception is the cognitive and sensory process by which listeners interpret and organize auditory stimuli as structured musical experiences, distinguishing it from broader auditory perception through its focus on the psychological and acoustical mechanisms underlying the apprehension of pitch, rhythm, harmony, and timbre within culturally and contextually informed frameworks.

6.5K

Publications

440.1K

Citations

9.7K

Authors

2.4K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

1.2K

Parents

General Music EducationMusic PsychologyPsychoacousticsSystematic Musicology

Children

Cross-cultural Music PerceptionExpressive Performance PerceptionGroove PerceptionInterval DiscriminationMode PerceptionMusic Perception In ChildrenMusic Perception In InfantsMusical ExpectationMusical TensionPitch Direction Perception

Publications

6.5K

Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion

Anne J. Blood, Robert J. Zatorre · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2001 · 2.8K citations · Full text

Nursing, Neuroscience, Psychology +17

Sweet anticipation: music and the psychology of expectation

Choice Reviews Online · 2007 · 1.9K citations

Humanities, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12

Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms

Patrik N. Juslin, Daniel Västfjäll · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2008 · 1.9K citations

Humanities, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +10

Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music

Valorie N. Salimpoor, Mitchel Benovoy, Kevin Larcher et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2011 · 1.8K citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +13

Brain Structures Differ between Musicians and Non-Musicians

Christian Gaser, Gottfried Schlaug · Journal of Neuroscience · 2003 · 1.6K citations · Full text

Education, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

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Authors

9.7K

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Stefan Koelsch
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
68 publications · 11.6K citations
51
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Isabelle Peretz
Université de Montréal, Canada
84 publications · 10.4K citations
51
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Robert J. Zatorre
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Canada
61 publications · 14.5K citations
45
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Carol L. Krumhansl
Cornell University, United States
53 publications · 8.9K citations
41
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Barbara Tillmann
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
62 publications · 4.4K citations
40
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Institutions

2.4K

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Venues

Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
506 publications · 35.8K citations
97
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
JASA · 283 publications · 21.3K citations
74
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Psychology of Music
251 publications · 15.3K citations
66
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Frontiers in Psychology
218 publications · 12.7K citations
58
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Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
117 publications · 9.3K citations
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