''I've got a silver machine / It flies side ways thru' time...''

''As we experience a temporal flux of events our expectations of future events change. Such expectations seem to be central to our perception of affect in music, but we have little understanding of how expectations change as recent information is integrated. When music establishes a pitch centre (tonality), we rapidly learn to anticipate its continuation. What happens when anticipations are challenged by new events?''

Music Cognition as Mental Time Travel. (2013)

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3776194