Music is universal, and like other arts is part of what defines us as humans. It is clearly, one of the most widespread cultural phenomena which has been studied from numerous perspectives including the social, anthropological, historical, aesthetic, semiotic and theoretic. However, music also presents a unique example of complex human behavior requiring an exquisite orchestration of mental, emotional and motor processes.  Moreover, it has recently been suggested that music may be biologically rooted and that at least in its origin it may have had evolutionary adaptive functions related to social bonding. In my research I use behavioral and brain measures to study a number of questions related to music cognition and its neural substrates.