What is Music Cognition?

• Why do some melodies get stuck in your head?
  
  
• How does music evoke emotions?
  
  
• Why do people willingly listen to music that makes them sad?
  
  
• What makes some performances of a work sound better than others?
  
  
• Can we hear/understand the music of another culture in the same way as people from that culture do?
  
  
• How does the experience of music change from infancy to adulthood?
  
  
• Why do some chord progressions sound better than others?
  
  
• Are musical preferences related to personality?
  
  
• Does everyone "hear" music the same way?
  
  
• How does music evoke pleasure?

Mostly experimental approach.