The psychology of music / edited by Diana Deutsch, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The perception of musical tones / Andrew J. Oxenham -- Musical timbre perception / Stephen McAdams -- Perception of singing / Johan Sundberg -- Intervals and scales / William Forde Thompson -- Absolute pitch / Diana Deutsch -- Grouping mechanisms in music / Diana Deutsch -- The processing of pitch combinations / Diana Deutsch -- Computational models of music cognition / David Temperley -- Structure and interpretation of rhythm in music / Henkjan Honing -- Music performance / Caroline Palmer -- Musical development / Laurel J. Trainor and Erin E. Hannon -- Music and cognitive abilities / E. Glenn Schellenberg and Michael W. Weiss -- The biological foundations of music / Isabelle Peretz -- Brain plasticity induced by musical training / Catherine Y. Wan and Gottfried Schlaug -- Music and emotion / Patrik N. Juslin and John A. Sloboda -- Comparative music cognition / Aniruddh D. Patel and Steven M. Demorest -- Psychologists and musicians / Robert O. Gjerdingen.