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Critical Period
“Critical period” refers to a time period in development during which an organism is particularly sensitive to environmental influences. Often, the organism must be exposed to a relevant environmental stimulus for particular behaviors or skills to develop normally. If the organism ...
- Aesthetics and Emotion
- Action Tendencies
- Aesthetic Response
- Affect
- Arousal, Emotional
- Authenticity
- Belief
- Circular Tones
- Cues and Signals
- Emotion
- Emotional Contagion
- Emotions, Aesthetic
- Emotions, Mixed
- Emotions, Primary and Secondary
- Empathy
- Evaluative Conditioning
- Meaning
- Mood
- Music Preference
- Musical Semantics
- Nostalgia
- Personality
- Rating Scales
- Relativism, Cultural
- Repetition
- Sad Music, Psychological Implications of
- Schema
- Style
- Subjectivity
- Syntax
- Tension
- Violence and Aggression
- Business and Technology
- Access, Digital
- Advertising
- Affordance and Appropriation
- Algorithm
- Appraisal
- Arthouse
- Authorship
- Classification, Music Store
- Computer Music
- Consumerism
- Copyright Law
- Copyright, Defined
- Driving While Listening to Music
- Green Music Alliance
- Lyrics
- Marketing
- Music Journalism
- Musical Instrument Digital Interface
- Pay to Play
- Payola (Radio)
- Phonograph
- Royalties
- Sectors, Music Industry
- Song
- Songwriting as Profession
- Touring
- Workout Playlists and Portable Devices
- Communities and Society
- Algerian Raï
- Antiestablishment Music
- Antiwar Music
- Apartheid
- Attunement and Affiliation
- Bards
- Blind Musicians
- Campaigns
- Civil Rights, U.S.
- Database Studies
- Diplomacy
- Ecological Validity
- Enculturation
- Fascism
- Fight Songs
- Generation
- Historical Musicology
- Indigenous Music
- Mass Hysteria
- Music Collectives
- Oral Tradition
- Patriotism
- Poetry
- Political Music
- Protest
- Race
- Revolutions
- Social History
- Spirituals
- Terrorism
- Troubadour
- War Music
- World Music
- Culture and Environment
- Anthems
- Anthropology
- Bimusicality
- Bird Song
- Cantometrics
- Chords, Perception of
- Classics
- Community Music
- Country Music
- Cultural Heritage
- Cultural Identity
- Cultural Meaning of Gender, Music and
- Cultural Renaissance
- Dance
- Death
- Drugs, Recreational
- Ecomusicology
- Environmental Causes and Campaigns
- Ethnocentricity
- Ethnographic Studies
- Ethnomusicology and Ethnomusicologists
- Everyday Uses of Music
- Fans
- Fieldwork
- Folk Music
- Gender
- Globalization
- Habitus
- Human Behavior, Music as
- Hymns
- Identity
- Imagery
- Immigrant Communities
- Inspiration
- Intellectual History
- Marching Bands
- Men
- Music Culture
- Music Festivals
- Music Traditions, Continuing
- Nature, Music in
- Performativity
- Philosophy
- Popular Music
- Primitive Music
- Prosody
- Religion
- Rituals
- Rock Concerts
- Social Networking
- Sociology of Music
- Soundscape
- Sports
- Street Musicians
- Subcultures
- Theater
- Tone Language
- Trance
- Urban Music
- Weddings
- Whale Songs
- Whistled Speech
- Women
- World Soundscape Project
- Elements of Musical Examination
- Analogy, Metaphor, and Narrative
- Analysis by Synthesis
- Architectural Acoustics
- Atonality
- Auditory Stream Segregation: Applications
- Auditory Stream Segregation: Boundaries
- Auditory System
- Behavioral Measures
- Brain Stem
- Case Studies
- Categorical Perception
- Closed Systems
- Closure
- Cochlear Implant
- Computer Models of Music
- Computer-Aided Musical Analysis
- Consonance and Dissonance
- Continuous Response Measurement
- Converging Evidence
- Correlational Study
- Critical Band
- Distraction
- Empirical Musicology
- Feature
- Features, Independence and Interaction of
- Fourier Analysis
- Generative Theory of Tonal Music
- Gesture
- Harmonicity
- Harmony
- Hearing Damage
- High Fidelity
- Humor
- Illusion
- Imaging Techniques
- Information-Processing Paradigm
- Instruments
- Intentionality
- Interval
- Intonation
- Loudness and Intensity
- Melody Processing
- Mode
- Music, Definitions of
- Musical Meme
- Musical Research, Causal Effects in
- Nature–Nurture
- Noise Versus Music
- Observation Techniques, Ethnomusicology
- Pattern
- Pitch Perception
- Pitch Perception: Development
- Pitch, Absolute
- Pitch, Models of
- Pitch, Relative
- Post-Tonal Music
- Probe-Tone Method
- Protolanguage
- Recognition
- Resource Sharing, Music and Language
- Scale
- Silence
- Sound
- Sound Engineering
- Systematic Musicology
- Timbre
- Tonal Pitch Space
- Tonality
- Tone
- Tuning Systems
- Vibrato
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Media and Communication
- Musicianship and Expertise
- Achievement, Musical
- Anxiety, Performance
- Arranging
- Articulation
- Audience
- Automaticity
- Body Movements
- Competitions, Classical and Popular
- Composition
- Conducting
- Creativity, Theories of Musical
- Drumming
- Education, Music
- Elite Performance
- Ensemble Performance
- Expertise
- Expressivity
- Fame and Esteem
- Fingering
- Genius
- Giftedness and Talent
- Grouping
- Improvisation
- Intelligence
- Interpretation
- Large-Scale Structure
- Learning and Teaching
- Lessons, Music
- Motor Skill Acquisition
- Movement
- Music Analysis
- Musical Aptitude, Tests of
- Musicking
- Nonmusical Abilities
- Notation
- Originality, Measures of
- Ornamentation
- Performance
- Practice
- School Bands and Choirs
- Sight Reading
- Singing, Acoustics
- Singing, Pedagogy of
- Singing, Psychology of
- Statistical Learning
- Theory
- Training
- Voice and Musical Identity
- Voice Leading, Rules of
- Neuroscience
- Achievement, Academic
- Applied Musicology
- Arousal, Science of
- Attention
- Brain Specialization for Music
- Brain Waves
- Cognition and Learning, Childhood
- Cognitive Constraints
- Critical Period
- Entrainment
- Episodic Memory
- Facial Expression
- Fetal Development
- Genetic Basis of Music
- Hemispheric Asymmetry
- Hormones
- Immune System
- Melodic Intonation Therapy
- Mirror Neurons
- Modularity
- Motivation
- Mozart Effect
- Music Exposure, Short-Term Effects of
- Music Training, Long-Term Effects of
- Neural Network Models
- Neurotransmitters
- Parkinson's Disease
- Physiological Responses, Peripheral
- Plasticity
- Prodigy
- Psychoacoustics
- Psychoanalysis
- Second Language Acquisition
- Sleep
- Perception, Memory, and Cognition
- Accent
- Agency
- Auditory Stream Segregation: Applications
- Auditory Stream Segregation: Boundaries
- Background Music
- Circle of Fifths
- Complexity
- Decoding
- Dissociation
- Earworms
- Embodied Cognition
- Executive Function
- Expectancy
- Expressive Timing
- Feedback, Role of
- Fusion
- Gestalt
- Hierarchical Organization
- Implication–Realization
- Implicit Learning
- Individual Differences
- Memory
- Meter
- Modulation
- Multimodality
- Music Cognition
- Perception
- Priming
- Rhythm
- Roughness and Beats
- Semiotics
- Similarity, Melodic
- Structure
- Synaesthesia
- Tactus and Pulse
- Tempo
- Theory of Mind
- Timing
- Transfer Effects
- Politics, Economics, and Law
- Therapy, Health, and Well-Being
- Aging
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Belonging
- Cancer
- Communicative Musicality
- Cooperation
- Dementia
- Health and Wellness
- Health Care
- Health, Public
- Intimacy and Affiliation
- Language Disorders
- Meditation
- Mental Health
- Music Thanatology and Hospice Care
- Music Therapy
- Music Therapy Methods
- Music Therapy Models
- Musical Disorders
- Pain
- Prevention
- Rehabilitation
- Relaxation
- Rhythmic Auditory Entrainment
- Self-Esteem
- Social Bonding
- Social Exclusion
- Special Needs
- Speech Therapy
- Spirituality
- Stroke
- Suicide
- Synchronization
- Teamwork, Music Education and
- Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Vibrotactile Devices for the Deaf
- Well-Being
- Workout Playlists and Portable Devices
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