The present book proposes a systematic understanding about the conditions mechanisms
influences and processes evolving into a creative behavior in music based on
interdisciplinary perspectives of the cognitive sciences In his research study Sebastian
Schmidt focuses on so-called musical extrapolations' processes which bring the elusive quality
of music into mental existence by creating extrapolations about possible future occurring
events their musical meanings and the interrelations of their meanings. These processes
involved while music is being listened to and composed are defined as the result of implicit
and explicit problem-solving processes which are guided in tangible ways by factors of
intrinsic activities and motivation pre-disposed and experience-based structures and
environmental pressure.
