Carmel Raz is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Cornell University. She studies the interrelations of music, mind, and body during the emergence of modern European musical cultures. How did the field of music cognition develop from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century? How did Enlightenment neurophysiology influence Romantic music? Many insights yielded by experiments in psychology for us today were available in early musical writings that prioritized introspection as method. Raz draws out from these writings—especially those that may be dismissed as merely speculative, amateurish, or effusive—the paradigms that also produced the most respected psychological, physiological, and philosophical treatises of their day. Other research interests include historical theories of attentive listening and the history of music theory in a global perspective. Raz studied violin performance at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin and received her PhD in music theory from Yale University. She subsequently spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Columbia Society of Fellows, followed by six years as Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt.