Toward Extended Music Cognition: Commentary on Music and Cognitive Extension

Music Cognition and the Cognitive Sciences

Why should music be of interest to cognitive scientists, and what role does it play in human cognition? We review three factors that make music an important topic for cognitive scientific research. First, music is a universal human trait fulfilling crucial roles in everyday life. Second, music has an important part to play in ontogenetic development and human evolution. Third, appreciating and ...

Music Perception and Cognition

Music perception and cognition is the area of cognitive psychology devoted to determining the mental mechanisms underlying our appreciation of music, and in this chapter we review the major findings. We begin with the perception and cognition of pitch, which is the most thoroughly researched area in the field. We then consider perceptual organization in music in the dimension of time, followed ...

Music Perception and Cognition

Music cognition: Bridging computation and insights from cognitive neuroscience

In recent years, computational models have become an increasingly important part both of cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. In tandem with these developments neuroscientific and cognitive investigations of musical experience and behaviour have been gathering pace. In this context, music cognition constitutes a rich and challenging area of cognitive science in which the processing of ...

Cultural constraints on music perception and cognition.

Research suggests that music, like language, is both a biological predisposition and a cultural universal. While humans naturally attend to and process many of the psychophysical cues present in musical information, there is a great - and often culture-specific - diversity of musical practices differentiated in part by form, timbre, pitch, rhythm, and other structural elements. Musical interact...