CZ:List of music psychology topics

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A

• Acoustic perception: Add brief definition or description
• Agbekor: Add brief definition or description
• Amusia: An umbrella term for brain disorders affecting music perception and production. ^[e]
• 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. ^[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
•  Auditory system: A sensory system used by animals for the processing of sound pressure variation. ^[e]

B

• Babbling: Add brief definition or description
• Basal ganglia: A cluster of nerve cell bodies at the base of the forebrain in vertebrates. ^[e]
•  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
•  Brain: The core unit of a central nervous system. ^[e]
•  Brain development: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. ^[e]
•  Brain evolution: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. ^[e]
•  Brain morphometry: The quantitative study of structures in the brain, their differences between individuals, correlations with brain function, and changes of these characteristics over time. ^[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
•  Cognition: The central nervous system's processing of information relevant to interacting with itself and its internal and external environment. ^[e]

D

• Deep homology: Add brief definition or description
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Add brief definition or description

E

•  Ear: The organ that detects sound. ^[e]
• Electrodermal activity: Add brief definition or description
•  Electroencephalography: A technique that records brain electrical activity non-invasively. ^[e]
•  Emotion: A psychophysiological process underlying the interpretation of situations or objects by an animal. ^[e]
•  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
•  Human uniqueness: Add brief definition or description

K

• KE family: Add brief definition or description

L

• Language: Add brief definition or description
• Larynx: Add brief definition or description

M

• Magnetoencephalography: Add brief definition or description
• 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
•  Music: Add brief definition or description
• Music and the brain: Add brief definition or description
• Music cognition: Add brief definition or description
•  Music perception: Add brief definition or description
•  Music production: Add brief definition or description
• Music semantics: Add brief definition or description
• Music syntax: Add brief definition or description
• Music universal: Add brief definition or descriptions
•  Musical instrument: Add brief definition or description
• Musical protolanguage: Add brief definition or description

N

•  Neuroimaging: Add brief definition or description

O

• Origin of language: Add brief definition or description
•  Origin of music: Add brief definition or description

P

• Positron emission tomography: Add brief definition or description
• Pitch (music): Add brief definition or description
• Prosody: Add brief definition or description
•  Psychology: Add brief definition or description

R

• Rhythm: Add brief definition or description
• Roughness: Add brief definition or description

S

• Subsong: Add brief definition or description
• Synchronization: Add brief definition or description
•  Syncopation: Add brief definition or description

T

• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Add brief definition or description
• Tonic: Add brief definition or description
• Tonotopy: Add brief definition or description

V

• Valence: Add brief definition or description
•  Vocal learning: Add brief definition or description

W

• Williams syndrome: Add brief definition or description
• Wernicke's area: Add brief definition or description