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Music psychology[edit] -Portion of Musicology Article: Main articles: Music psychology, Cognitive musicology, Cognitive neuroscience of music, and Music therapy Music psychology applies the content and methods of all subdisciplines of psychology (perception, cognition, motivation, etc.)← to understand how music is created, perceived, responded to, and incorporated into individuals' and societies' daily lives.[11] Its primary branches include cognitive musicology, which emphasizes the use of computational models for human musical abilities and cognition, and the cognitive neuroscience of music, which studies the way that music perception and production manifests in the brain using the methodologies of cognitive neuroscience.

While aspects of the field can be highly theoretical, much of modern music psychology seeks to optimize the practices and professions of music performance, composition, education, and therapy.[12]