Perceptual experience is continuously refined by crossmodal interactions in time. Prior research shows that auditory timing can modulate the perceived speed of visual motion with simple stimuli (e.g., ...

This article was originally featured in MIT Press. In 2009, my research group found that newborns possess the ability to discern a regular pulse–the beat–in music. It’s a skill that might seem trivial ...

The Society for Music Perception and Cognition held its first in-person meeting in three years in Portland, Oregon, on August 4 through 7. Here are a few of the most intriguing findings I learned at ...

From a general perspective, harmony in music is the balance of the proportions between the different parts of a whole, which causes a feeling of pleasure. "When we listen to music, each sound we hear ...

“You do find many people studying [the] neuroscience of music are musicians, and I’m no different,” he says. Auditory physiologist Nelson Kiang in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at Harvard/MIT helped ...