Given all these caveats, the data are clearly approximate and incomplete, and should be taken with a grain of salt. But they are interesting all the same.

Finally a special request: It’s hard to complete a list like this in Google Scholar - you have to search around using different keywords. Please email me if you notice that an important person or publication is missing.

[BOOK] A Generative Theory of Tonal Music
F Lerdahl, R Jackendoff - 1983 - books.google.com
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[BOOK] Auditory scene analysis - All 2 versions »
AS Bregman - 1990 - mitpress.mit.edu
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[BOOK] Emotion and Meaning in Music
LB Meyer - 1956 - books.google.com
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 [BOOK] Musical Mind
JA Sloboda - 1994 - ingentaconnect.com
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[BOOK] Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch - All 3 versions »
CL Krumhansl - 1990 - books.google.com
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[PDF] Neural Mechanisms Underlying Melodic Perception and Memory for Pitch - all 4 versions »
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[BOOK] Music cognition - All 2 versions »
WJ Dowling, DL Harwood - 1986 - viamedica.pl
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[BOOK] Music in Everyday Life - All 3 versions »
T DeNora - 2000 - books.google.com
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Increased auditory cortical representation in musicians. - all 3 versions »
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[BOOK] Psychology of Music
CE Seashore - 1967 - books.google.com
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Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in … - All 17 versions »
AJ Blood, RJ Zatorre - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001 - Cited by: 241 - Similar articles - Web search

 

Dynamic attending and responses to time - All 3 versions »
MR Jones, M Boltz - Psychological Review, 1989 - content.apa.org
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Music and spatial task performance - all 5 versions »
FH Rauscher, GL Shaw, CN Ky - Nature, 1993 - nature.com
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Perception of temporal patterns
DJ Povel, P Essens - Music Perception, 1985 - doi.apa.org
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[BOOK] On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music - All 2 versions »
H von Helmholtz - 1954 - books.google.com
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The dynamics of attending: How people track time-varying events - All 4 versions »
EW Large, MR Jones - Psychological Review, 1999 - content.apa.org
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The structural components of music perception. A functional anatomical study - All 3 versions »
H Platel, C Price, JC Baron, R Wise, J Lambert, RS … - Brain - Oxford Univ Press
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[BOOK] Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik
H von Helmholtz - 1870 - F. Vieweg und Sohn
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Contribution of different cortical areas in the temporal lobes to music processing - All 7 versions »
C Liegeois-Chauvel, I Peretz, M Babai, V Laguitton … - Brain - Oxford Univ Press
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[BOOK] The Developmental Psychology of Music - All 2 versions »
DJ Hargreaves - 1986 - books.google.com
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The Effects of Music in Advertising on Choice Behavior: A Classical Conditioning Approach - All 2 versions »
GJ Gorn - Journal of Marketing, 1982 - JSTOR
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Processing Syntactic Relations in Language and Music: An Event-Related Potential Study - All 13 versions »
AD Patel, E Gibson, J Ratner, M Besson, PJ Holcomb - Journal of Cognitive Cited by: 160 - Similar articles - Web search

 

A perceptual model of pulse salience and metrical accent in musical rhythms
R Parncutt - Music Perception, 1994 - doi.apa.org
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[BOOK] Music and the Mind
A Storr - 1993 - Ballantine Books
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The Influence of Background Music on the Behavior of Restaurant Patrons - All 3 versions »
RE Milliman - Journal of Consumer Research, 1986 - UChicago Press
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When That Tune Runs Through Your Head: A PET Investigation of Auditory Imagery for Familiar Melodies - All 3 versions »
AR Halpern, RJ Zatorre - Cerebral Cortex, 1999 - Oxford Univ Press
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An On-Line Algorithm for Real-Time Accompaniment
RB Dannenberg - Proceedings of the 1984 International Computer Music …, 1984 - Cited by 144 - Web Search

 

MUSIC PERFORMANCE - All 14 versions »
C Palmer - Annual Reviews in Psychology, 1997 - Annual Reviews
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… Response to Television Commercials: The Impact of Involvement and Background Music on Brand Attitude …
C. Whan Park and S. Mark Young, Journal of Marketing Research
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Diversity and commonality in music performance: An analysis of timing microstructure in Schumann’s ‘‘ … - All 4 versions »
BH Repp - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1992 - link.aip.org
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 [PDF] The performance of music - All 2 versions »
A Gabrielsson - The Psychology of Music, 1999 - www-scf.usc.edu
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Communication of emotions in vocal expression and music performance: different channels, same code? - all 2 versions »
PN Juslin, P Laukka - Psychol Bull, 2003 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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The Origins of Music - All 3 versions »
NL Wallin - Music Perception, 2001 - Univ California Press
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Music cognition and perceptual facilitation: A connectionist framework
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[PDF] The internal representation of pitch sequences in tonal music - All 2 versions »
D Deutsch, J Feroe - Psychological Review, 1981 - philomel.com
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Opinion: The musician's brain as a model of neuroplasticity - All 3 versions »
TF Münte, E Altenmüller, L Jäncke… - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002 - Cited by: 110 - Similar articles - Web search
 

The quantization of musical time: A connectionist approach. - All 2 versions »
P Desain, H Honing - COMP. MUSIC J., 1989 - JSTOR
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 [PDF] Implicit learning of tonality: A self-organizing approach - all 8 versions »
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Brain Indices of Music Processing: ℌNonmusicians” are Musical - All 7 versions »
S Koelsch, T Gunter, AD Friederici, E Schroger - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2000 - MIT Press
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A model of expressive timing in tonal music
N Todd - Music Perception, 1985 - doi.apa.org
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[PDF] Music-Listening Systems - All 11 versions »
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Music and emotion: perceptual determinants, immediacy, and isolation after brain damage - all 7 versions »
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[CITATION] Rhythm and timing in music
EF Clarke - The Psychology of Music, 1999
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Use of music to decrease aggressive behaviors in people with dementia.
ME Clark, AW Lipe, M Bilbrey - J Gerontol Nurs, 1998 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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The perception of musical rhythms - All 5 versions »
HC Longuet-Higgins, CS Lee - Perception, 1982 - perceptionweb.com
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Introduction to Physics and Psychophysics of Music - All 3 versions »
J Roederer, J Josephs - American Journal of Physics, 1974 - link.aip.org
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Functional Anatomy of Musical Perception in Musicians - All 2 versions »
T Ohnishi, H Matsuda, T Asada, M Aruga, M Hirakata … - Cerebral Cortex, 2001 - Cited by: 92 - Similar articles - Web search

Absolute memory for musical pitch: Evidence from the production of learned melodies - All 11 versions »
DJ Levitin - 1994 - cogprints.org
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[BOOK] The Musical Temperament: Psychology and Personality of Musicians
AE Kemp - 1996 - books.google.com
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Emotional Coloring of Computer-Controlled Music Performances - All 4 versions »
R Bresin, A Friberg - Computer Music Journal, 2000 - MIT Press
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Generative Rules for Music Performance: A Formal Description of a Rule System - All 2 versions »
A Friberg - Computer Music Journal, 1991 - JSTOR
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Congenital amusia: A group study of adults afflicted with a music-specific disorder. - all 10 versions »
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The Cortical Topography of Tonal Structures Underlying Western Music - all 6 versions »
P. Janata, JD Van Horn, M Leman, B Tillmann, JJ Bharucha - Science, 2002 –

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Exploring the Functional Neuroanatomy of Music Performance, Perception, and Comprehension - All 4 versions »
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A cross-cultural investigation of the perception of emotion in music: Psychophysical and cultural …
LL Balkwill, WF Thompson - Music Perception, 1999 - doi.apa.org
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Expectation in music: Investigation of melodic and harmonic processes
MA Schmuckler - Music Perception, 1989 - doi.apa.org
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[BOOK] Music as cognition: the development of thought in sound
ML Serafine - 1988 - New York: Columbia University Press
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Music, the Brain and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
R Jourdain - Scientific American, 1997 - sscnet.ucla.edu
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[CITATION] Thrills in response to music and other stimuli
A Goldstein - Physiological Psychology, 1980
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The emotional sources of “chills” induced by music
J Panksepp - Music Perception, 1995 - doi.apa.org
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[BOOK] Music and Schema Theory: Cognitive Foundations of Systematic Musicology
M Leman - 1995 - Springer Verlag
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Grouping conditions in listening to music: An approach to Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s Grouping …
I Deliege - Music Perception, 1987 - doi.apa.org
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Accent structures in music performance
C Drake, C Palmer - Music Perception, 1993 - doi.apa.org
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Arousal, Mood, and the Mozart Effect - All 3 versions »
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Music and speech processing in the first year of life. - All 2 versions »
SE Trehub, LJ Trainor, AM Unyk - Adv Child Dev Behav, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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[PDF] Emotional effects of music: Production rules - All 2 versions »
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[CITATION] Hearing musical streams
S McAdams, A Bregman - Computer Music Journal, 1979
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[BOOK] Language, music, and mind
D Raffman - 1993 - mitpress.mit.edu
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[BOOK] Beyond Schenkerism: The Need for Alternatives in Music Analysis
E Narmour - 1980 - books.google.com
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[BOOK] Musikerziehung und ihre Wirkung
HG Bastian - 2002 - Mainz: Schott
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Tonal hierarchies in the music of north India. - All 2 versions »
MA Castellano, JJ Bharucha, CL Krumhansl - J Exp Psychol Gen, 1984 - Cited by: 67 - Similar articles - Web search

 

The role of parental influences in the development of musical performance
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The importance of music to adolescents - All 2 versions »
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Perception of the major/minor distinction: IV. Emotional connotations in young children
MP Kastner, RG Crowder - Music Perception, 1990 - doi.apa.org
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[CITATION] Neurological aspects of music perception and performance
OSM Marin, DW Perry - The Psychology of Music, 1999
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[CITATION] Describing the perception of tonality in music: A critique of the tonal hierarchy theory and a …
D Butler - Music Perception, 1989
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Pitch and rhythmic patterns affecting infants’ sensitivity to musical phrase structure - All 3 versions »
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 [PDF] Perception of musical tension in short chord sequences: The influence of harmonic function, sensory … - all 4 versions »
E Bigand, R Parncutt, F Lerdahl - Perception & Psychophysics, 1996 –

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Effects of Musical Tempo and Mode on Arousal, Mood, and Spatial Abilities - All 3 versions »
G Husain, WF Thompson, EG Schellenberg - Music Perception, 2002 - Univ California Press
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Music lessons enhance IQ - All 19 versions »
EG Schellenberg - Psychological Science, 2004 - ingentaconnect.com
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[BOOK] Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis - All 2 versions »
LM Zbikowski - 2002 - books.google.com
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The effects of three years of piano instruction on children’s cognitive development - All 2 versions »
E Costa-Giomi - Journal of Research in Music Education, 1999 - JSTOR
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Music, Cognition, Culture, and Evolution - All 8 versions »
Ian Cross - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2001 - Blackwell Synergy
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Tone and Voice: A Derivation of the Rules of Voice-Leading from Perceptual Principles - All 4 versions »
D Huron - Music Perception, 2001 - Univ California Press
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The development of evaluative responses to music: Infants prefer to listen to consonance over … - All 5 versions »
LJ Trainor, BM Heinmiller - Infant Behavior and Development, 1998 - Elsevier
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Perceptual judgment of the relationship between musical and visual components in film
SD Lipscomb, RA Kendall - Psychomusicology, 1994 - doi.apa.org
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Modeling Tonality: Applications to Music Cognition - All 7 versions »
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