Over 30 authors contributed 15 articles toward this research topic. Collectively this body of work represents a bridge between music informatics and music cognition, covering a broad range of research topics.
We can categorize these fifteen articles into one of the following groups or a combination of them, since the groups are not mutually exclusive:
(1) Research addressing problems or needs fundamental to one domain but borrowing methods, approaches, and/or insights from the other domain.
(2) Research addressing problems or needs common to both domains and borrowing methods and insights from either of the two domains.
(3) Research addressing problems or needs of one domain with strong implications for the other domain.