Skeptophilia

You probably know that there are many languages -- the most commonly-cited are Mandarin and Thai -- that are tonal .  The pitch, and pitch c...

Consider the simple interrogative English sentence, "She gave the package to him today?" Now, change one at a time which word is s...

I've been a music lover since I was little.  My mom used to tell the story of my being around four years old and begging her to let me p...

Following up on a post last week about our perception of aesthetics in music, today we look at the question of whether the way our brains in...