Exploring the Musical Mind

• Brings together in one volume important material from various hard-to-locate sources, giving the reader access to a body of work from one of the founders of music psychology
• Complements and updates the bestselling 'The Musical Mind' (Sloboda)
• Focuses on ideas, interpretation, argument and application rather than on technical issues

Readership: Students and researchers in music psychology and music education, cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

John Sloboda, Professor of Psychology, Keele University, UK

Part A: Cognitive Processes
1: The psychology of music reading
2: Experimental studies of music reading: a review
3: The uses of space in music notation
4: Immediate recall of melodies
5: Cognition and real music: the psychology of music comes of age
6: Psychological structures in music: core research 1980-1990
7: Book review of "Language, Music and Mind"
8: Does music mean anything?
Part B: Emotion and Motivation
9: Music as a language
10: Music psychology and the composer
11: Empirical studies of emotional response to music
12: Emotional responses to music: a review
13: Musical performance and emotion: issues and developments
Part C: Talent and skill development
14: Musical expertise
15: Musical ability
16: The acquisition of music performance expertise
17: Are some children more gifted for music than others?
Part D: Music in the real world
18: Everyday uses of music
19: Music: where cognition and emotion meet
20: Music and worship: a psychologist's perspective
21: Emotion, functionality, and the everyday experience of music
22: The sound of music versus the essence of music
23: Assessing music psychology research