Cognition: The Musical Mind

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Cognition The Musical Mind?

• MUSI 1911/2
• Introduction to the Psychology of Music

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Overview

• Minds and Brains
• Cognitive Science
• Musical Minds
• Musical Machines
• Problems
• Summary

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Minds and Brains

• What are the differences?
• What are the similarities?

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Cognitive Science

• Experiments
• Models
• Cognitive Neuroscience

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Musical Minds

• Sloboda
• Cross, Howell and West
• McAdams
• Desain and Honing

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Musical Machines

• Advantages?
• Disadvantages?
• Example the shoe
• www.nici.kun.nl/mmm

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Problems

• Do we have minds at all
• The body
• The changing mind and body developmental issues
• The outside the environment and society

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Summary

• Hard cognitive approach still dominant
• Cognitive approach currently being challenged
• body
• brain
• society
• Cognitive approach extended
• learning and development (neural networks)
• tool rather than explanation