CZ:List of music psychology topics
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Related lists: list of biology topics, list of music topics, list of psychology topics, CZ:Core Articles.
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- Acoustic perception: Add brief definition or description
- Agbekor: Add brief definition or description
- Amusia: Add brief definition or description
- Amygdala: Add brief definition or description
- Aphasia: A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Arousal: Add brief definition or description
- Auditory cortex: Add brief definition or description
- Auditory illusions: Add brief definition or description
- Auditory pathway: Add brief definition or description
- Auditory scene analysis: Add brief definition or description
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Auditory system: A sensory system for the processing of sound pressure by animals. [e]
B
- Babbling: Add brief definition or description
- Basal ganglia: Add brief definition or description
- Biomusicology: The study of biological aspects of music perception and production. [e]
- Bird vocalization: Add brief definition or description
- BOLD effect: Add brief definition or description
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Brain: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
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Brain development: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons and glia. [e]
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Brain evolution: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. [e]
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Brain morphometry: The quantification of correlations between structures and functions in the brain. [e]
- Brain structure: Add brief definition or description
- Broca's area: Add brief definition or description
C
- Central sulcus: Add brief definition or description
- Cingular gyrus: Add brief definition or description
- Cochlea: Add brief definition or description
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Cognition: The central nervous system's processing of information relevant to behaviour. [e]
D
- Deep homology: Add brief definition or description
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Add brief definition or description
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Ear: The organ that detects sound. [e]
- Electrodermal activity: Add brief definition or description
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Electroencephalography: A technique that records brain electrical activity non-invasively. [e]
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Emotion: A psychophysiological process underlying the interpretation of situations or objects by an animal. [e]
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Entrainment: The synchronization of different individual organisms to an external rhythm, usually in the framework of social interactions. [e]
- Ethnomusicology: The study of music in its cultural context. [e]
F
- Focal dystonia: Add brief definition or description
- FOXP2: A regulatory gene on human chromosome 7, involved in language disorders. [e]
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Add brief definition or description
G
- Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM) by Lerdahl & Jackendoff: Add brief definition or description
- Gestalt theory: Add brief definition or description
- Grouping: Add brief definition or description
H
- Harmony: Add brief definition or description
- Hearing: Add brief definition or description
- Heart rate variability: Add brief definition or description
- Heschl's gyrus: Add brief definition or description
- Hippocampus: Add brief definition or description
- History of music: Add brief definition or description
- History of music research: Add brief definition or description
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Human uniqueness: A theoretical concept in evolutionary studies, often used in discussions about the evolution of biological traits found in humans. [e]
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K
L
- Language: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Language (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Larynx: Add brief definition or description
M
- Magnetoencephalography: Study of cerebral function by mapping the magnetic fields associated with the electric currents generated by neuronal activity. The magnetic fields are usually detected using an array of SQUID detectors. [e]
- Mirror neuron: Add brief definition or descriptions
- Mode: Add brief definition or description
- Modularity of the mind: Add brief definition or description
- Mismatch negativity: Add brief definition or description
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Music: The art of structuring time by combining sound and silence into rhythm and harmonies. [e]
- Music and the brain: Add brief definition or description
- Music cognition: Add brief definition or description
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Music perception: The study of the neural mechanisms involved in people perceiving rhythms, melodies, harmonies and other musical features. [e]
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Music production: Principles of generating sounds and music. [e]
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Music psychology: The study of how, when, where and why people engage in music and dance. [e]
- Music universal: Add brief definition or descriptions
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Musical instrument: An object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. [e]
- Musical protolanguage: Add brief definition or description
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Musical semantics: The study of how music conveys meaning. [e]
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Musical syntax: A set of culture-specific rules underlying the composition and interpretation of music and often dance, too. [e]
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Neuroimaging: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. [e]
O
- Origin of language: Add brief definition or description
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Origin of music: The evolutionary background of the human capacity for music. [e]
P
- Positron emission tomography: An imaging technique using compounds labelled with short-lived positron-emitting radionuclides (such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13, oxygen-15 and fluorine-18) to measure cell metabolism.National Library of Medicine [e]
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Pitch (music): Perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. [e]
- Prosody: In traditional phonetics and phonology, a collective term for variables such as pitch, loudness, tempo and rhythm; nowadays, often used to mean suprasegmental, i.e. any phonological units or structure which organise segments, such as the syllable or phonological phrase. [e]
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Psychology: The study of systemic properties of the brain and their relation to behaviour. [e]
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- Rhythm: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Rhythm (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Roughness: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Roughness (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
S
- Subsong: The songs produced by adolescent songbirds, similar to the babbling stage in human language development. [e]
- Synchronization: Add brief definition or description
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Syncopation: A variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter. [e]
T
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Add brief definition or description
- Tonic: Add brief definition or description
- Tonotopy: Add brief definition or description
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V
- Valence: Add brief definition or description
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Vocal learning: The ability of an organism to imitate sounds not inborn to it. [e]
W
- Williams syndrome: Add brief definition or description
- Wernicke's area: Add brief definition or description

