Introductory Chapter: Introducing Biobehavioral Perspective of Music

Listening to music is an important part of a pleasant human experience. It allows the ventilation of pent-up emotions in a socially acceptable manner. Music does affect large aspects of human emotions and impacts biobehavioral processes such as arousal, concentration, sleep, and social bonding. There is evidence reporting on the effect of music activating complex neural networks critical for cognitive and emotional processing.