Erin E. Hannon
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195331059
- eISBN:
- 9780199864072
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331059.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter explores the question of how infants and children build musical representations, with particular focus on perception, and knowledge of temporal structure in music, such as rhythm and ...
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This chapter explores the question of how infants and children build musical representations, with particular focus on perception, and knowledge of temporal structure in music, such as rhythm and meter. It reviews published and new evidence that infants can perceive rhythm and meter by attending to the same statistical properties that underlie adults' perception, that representations of rhythm and meter undergo reorganization as a result of culture-specific perceptual experience, and that infants and adults share some basic temporal processing constraints despite infants' initial flexibility. In addition to examining development of music-specific knowledge, a parallel goal is to understand the emergence of domain-specific representations in auditory cognition. If we assume that early representations of music are primarily domain-general and become culture-specific through perceptual experience, then a question of great interest is whether overlapping structures are present and detected in the musical and linguistic input available to infants and children. The chapter briefly reviews some new evidence suggesting that this is may be the case.Less
This chapter explores the question of how infants and children build musical representations, with particular focus on perception, and knowledge of temporal structure in music, such as rhythm and meter. It reviews published and new evidence that infants can perceive rhythm and meter by attending to the same statistical properties that underlie adults' perception, that representations of rhythm and meter undergo reorganization as a result of culture-specific perceptual experience, and that infants and adults share some basic temporal processing constraints despite infants' initial flexibility. In addition to examining development of music-specific knowledge, a parallel goal is to understand the emergence of domain-specific representations in auditory cognition. If we assume that early representations of music are primarily domain-general and become culture-specific through perceptual experience, then a question of great interest is whether overlapping structures are present and detected in the musical and linguistic input available to infants and children. The chapter briefly reviews some new evidence suggesting that this is may be the case.
Lawrence Kramer
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520288799
- eISBN:
- 9780520963627
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520288799.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? This book grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially compelling at a ...
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What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? This book grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. In this third volume in a trilogy on musical understanding the author seeks answers in both thought about music and thought in music-thinking in tones. The book assesses musical scholarship in the aftermath of critical musicology and musical hermeneutics and in view of more recent concerns with embodiment, affect, and performance. The book challenges the prevailing conceptions of every topic it addresses: language, context, and culture; pleasure and performance; and, through music, the foundations of understanding in the humanities.Less
What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? This book grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. In this third volume in a trilogy on musical understanding the author seeks answers in both thought about music and thought in music-thinking in tones. The book assesses musical scholarship in the aftermath of critical musicology and musical hermeneutics and in view of more recent concerns with embodiment, affect, and performance. The book challenges the prevailing conceptions of every topic it addresses: language, context, and culture; pleasure and performance; and, through music, the foundations of understanding in the humanities.
Rohani Omar
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- April 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190075934
- eISBN:
- 9780190095253
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190075934.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Neuropsychology
This chapter examines how music knowledge is affected in non-Alzheimer’s dementias, with a focus on frontotemporal dementia syndromes. It discusses the clinical and neurobiological rationale for ...
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This chapter examines how music knowledge is affected in non-Alzheimer’s dementias, with a focus on frontotemporal dementia syndromes. It discusses the clinical and neurobiological rationale for studying music knowledge in non-Alzheimer’s dementia. It describes some of the ways in which music knowledge has been investigated in these patients, what musical abilities are lost or preserved in non-Alzheimer’s dementia, and how this information helps us improve our knowledge of how the brain processes music. The social role of music in evolution is briefly discussed. The chapter examines how emotions generated by and recognized in music are processed differently in frontotemporal dementia compared to healthy individuals and Alzheimer’s disease patients, including the phenomenon of musicophilia, the abnormally enhanced craving for music. Finally it explains how the differences in emotion processing between dementia diseases highlight the need for some selectivity in designing music-based therapies.Less
This chapter examines how music knowledge is affected in non-Alzheimer’s dementias, with a focus on frontotemporal dementia syndromes. It discusses the clinical and neurobiological rationale for studying music knowledge in non-Alzheimer’s dementia. It describes some of the ways in which music knowledge has been investigated in these patients, what musical abilities are lost or preserved in non-Alzheimer’s dementia, and how this information helps us improve our knowledge of how the brain processes music. The social role of music in evolution is briefly discussed. The chapter examines how emotions generated by and recognized in music are processed differently in frontotemporal dementia compared to healthy individuals and Alzheimer’s disease patients, including the phenomenon of musicophilia, the abnormally enhanced craving for music. Finally it explains how the differences in emotion processing between dementia diseases highlight the need for some selectivity in designing music-based therapies.
