Marc Leman Knihy

Focusing on the dynamic and pre-reflective processes in music interactions, the book explores how expression drives our responses, often occurring before conscious awareness. Marc Leman presents a framework for understanding these expressive interactions, emphasizing their role in cognitive processing across various domains, including language and human-machine interaction. He highlights music's energizing effects, its influence on learning and motivation, and the importance of interaction flow. Applications extend to sports, rehabilitation, multimedia art, and music education, showcasing the broad relevance of expressive motivation.

This book presents a coherent state-of-the-art survey on the area of systematic and cognitive musicology which has enjoyed dynamic growth now for many years. It is devoted to exploring the relationships between acoustics, human information processing, and culture as well as to methodological issues raised by the widespread use of computers as a powerful tool for theory construction, theory testing, and the manipulation of musical information or any kind of data manipulation related to music.