"Cognitive musicology is a branch of cognitive science concerned with computationally modeling musical knowledge with the goal of understanding both music and cognition."
Is the study of how the human brain perceives and understands music.
Pitch: A fundamental aspect of music theory, pitch is the perceived highness or lowness of a sound.
Harmony: The study of how different chords and notes work together to create a harmonious sound.
Melody: The organization of pitches in a logical and pleasing way, resulting in a specific musical phrase or theme.
Rhythm: How notes and rests are organized over time, creating a predictable pattern of beats.
Timbre: The unique quality of a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds, such as the difference between a guitar and a piano.
Perception: The study of how we perceive and interpret different musical elements.
Cognitive psychology: The study of how our brains process and understand information, including music.
Memory: The ways in which we store and recall information, especially with regard to musical elements such as melodies or rhythms.
Attention: The mechanisms by which we focus our attention on specific elements of the music.
Emotion: The role that musical elements can play in eliciting emotional responses from listeners.
Auditory Perception: How we receive and interpret sounds from the environment, including musical sounds such as pitch, tone, rhythm, melody, and harmony.
Sensory Perception: How we receive and interpret physical stimuli from our five senses, including sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
Cognitive Perception: How we interpret and process information received through sensory perception, including memory, attention, perception of time, and reasoning. This type of perception plays a critical role in how we perceive, analyze, and understand complex music compositions.
Pitch Perception: Refers to the way our brain interprets sound waves and assigns them a specific pitch. It is important in the perception of melody and harmony in music.
Rhythm Perception: Refers to the ability to perceive and understand patterns of duration, timing, and accentuation in music.
Timbre Perception: Relates to the perception of the quality of a sound, including the tone color or character of the sound.
Harmony Perception: Refers to the perception and interpretation of more than one musical tone played at the same time, usually in a chord or chord progression.
Melodic perception: Refers to the way we interpret melodies, including the intervals between notes and the overall contour of the melody.
Emotional Perception: Refers to the effect that music has on our emotions and how we interpret the emotions expressed through individual pieces of music, including empathy, joy, sadness, or excitement.
Structural Perception: Refers to the ability to understand the organization and structure of a piece of music and the relationships between the different elements, including melody, harmony, and rhythm.
"Cognitive musicology can be differentiated from other branches of music psychology via its methodological emphasis, using computer modeling to study music-related knowledge representation with roots in artificial intelligence and cognitive science."
"This interdisciplinary field investigates topics such as the parallels between language and music in the brain."
"Biologically inspired models of computation are often included in research, such as neural networks and evolutionary programs."
"This field seeks to model how musical knowledge is represented, stored, perceived, performed, and generated."
"For instance, the rhythm is processed and regulated by the left frontal cortex, the left parietal cortex, and the right cerebellum standardly."
"Tonality, the building of musical structure around a central chord, is assessed by the prefrontal cortex and cerebellum."
"Music is able to access many different brain functions that play an integral role in other higher brain functions such as motor control, memory, language, reading, and emotion."
"Research has shown that music can be used as an alternative method to access these functions that may be unavailable through non-musical stimulus due to a disorder."
"Musicology explores the use of music and how it can provide alternative transmission routes for information processing in the brain for diseases such as Parkinson's and dyslexia."
"The use of computer models provides an exacting, interactive medium in which to formulate and test theories."
"Even while enjoying the simplest of melodies, there are multiple brain processes that are synchronizing to comprehend what is going on."
"After the stimulus enters and undergoes the processes of the ear, it enters the auditory cortex, part of the temporal lobe, which begins processing the sound by assessing its pitch and volume."
"The rhythm is processed and regulated by the left frontal cortex, the left parietal cortex, and the right cerebellum standardly."
"Tonality, the building of musical structure around a central chord, is assessed by the prefrontal cortex and cerebellum."
"Music is able to access many different brain functions that play an integral role in other higher brain functions such as motor control, memory, language, reading, and emotion."
"Research has shown that music can be used as an alternative method to access these functions that may be unavailable through non-musical stimulus due to a disorder."
"Musicology explores the use of music and how it can provide alternative transmission routes for information processing in the brain for diseases such as Parkinson's and dyslexia."
"Cognitive musicology can be differentiated from other branches of music psychology via its methodological emphasis, using computer modeling to study music-related knowledge representation with roots in artificial intelligence and cognitive science."
"Cognitive musicology is a branch of cognitive science concerned with computationally modeling musical knowledge with the goal of understanding both music and cognition."