Music & Neurology Scientific Literature

I had the pleasure of recently attending a talk from Dr. Stefan Koelsch from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. Besides him being a pretty cool guy overall, he maintains a website where you can download free of charge loads of scientific papers that deal with music and neurological studies. This is obviously rather relevant to composers so I'm posting it here as a heads up.

http://www.stefan-koelsch.de/papers_html.html

Read up.

Oh, and do thank Dr. Koelsch for his commendable effort (as a scientist and for posting all these papers on his website) if you feel so inclined.

This is really solid! Thanks a lot, SSC.

Awesome. I'l definetely be reading some of these. Currently working on my bachelor (towards a PhD) of psych and music is my area of interest. Presently I'm in the middle of an excellent 45 page review paper on the relationship between vocal processing and music by Juslin & Laukka. Im not surprised to see that it was cited in Koelsch's "Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music" (citation 14.)

Oh and I just skimmed over that "universal recognition" article and found a passage that I can't resist quoting: "Both Westerners and Mafas classified the majority of major pieces as happy, the majority of pieces with indefinite mode as sad, and most of the pieces in minor as scared/fearful." First time I ever saw a cross cultural study demonstrating that. YEAHH! (DISCLAIRMER I haven't read the whole thing yet)

Thanks SSC

Thanks to Dr. Stefan Koelsch and SSC! This really is a sound source about psychophysical effects of music.

Wow... interesting and helpful! :)

Thanks SSC

That's extremely interesting, SSC. Thanks for sharing!

Great, thanks for the link :)