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Learning to listen, listening to learn : music perception and the psychology of enculturation /

"What accounts for the variety of music witnessed across the world? The answer lies in the psychological mechanisms of cultural evolution that combine a creative process of composing ever new forms of music and a perceptual process of learning to appreciate listening to them. This book develop...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pearce, Marcus T. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Music > Psychological aspects.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music theory.
Musique > Aspect psychologique.
Musique > Philosophie et esthétique.
Théorie musicale.
Theory.
Instruction & Study.
MUSIC.
PSYCHOLOGY.
Cognitive Science.
SCIENCE.
Music > Psychological aspects
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
Music theory
Music.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Perception and culture
  • 1.2 Statistical learning and probabilistic prediction
  • 1.3 Music perception: A case study in the psychology of enculturation
  • 1.4 A historical perspective
  • 1.5 Scope, structure, and methodology
  • 2 A Computational Model
  • 2.1 An informal sketch
  • 2.2 Modelling statistical learning and probabilistic prediction
  • 2.3 Multiple viewpoint representations
  • 2.4 Performance evaluation
  • 2.5 Comparison with other models
  • 2.6 Beyond theMarkov assumption
  • 2.7 Conclusion
  • 3 Predictive Processing of Melody
  • 3.1 Expectation, knowledge, and memory
  • 3.2 Melodic pitch expectation
  • 3.3 Uncertainty for pitch continuations
  • 3.4 Neural measures of predictive processing in melody
  • 3.5 Optimizing cognitive representations
  • 3.6 Conclusion
  • 4 Beyond Pitch Expectation: Rhythm and Harmony
  • 4.1 Expectations for event timing
  • 4.2 Expectations for harmonic movement
  • 4.3 Inferring latent musical attributes: Metre and tonality
  • 4.4 Conclusion
  • 5 Emotional and Aesthetic Experience
  • 5.1 Music as a communicative medium
  • 5.2 How does music evoke emotions?
  • 5.3 Aesthetic experience
  • 5.4 Simulating listeners' emotional and aesthetic experience of music
  • 5.5 Psychological and neural mechanisms
  • 5.6 Aesthetic experience of familiar music
  • 5.7 Conclusion
  • 6 Beyond Expectation
  • 6.1 Auditory memory
  • 6.2 Grouping structure: Segmentation and segregation
  • 6.3 Perceptual similarity
  • 6.4 Conclusion
  • 7 Musical Enculturation
  • 7.1 Artificial grammar learning
  • 7.2 Cross-cultural comparisons
  • 7.3 Enculturation across the lifespan
  • 7.4 Conclusion
  • 8 Musical Training and Expertise
  • 8.1 What is musical expertise?
  • 8.2 Expertise-related effects on musical expectation
  • 8.2.1 Differences in musical expectation between musicians and non-musicians
  • 8.2.2 Explicit vs implicit knowledge
  • 8.2.3 Expertise effects on predictive precision
  • 8.3 Expertise-related effects on aesthetic experience of music
  • 8.4 Expertise-related effects on perception and cognition
  • 8.5 Conclusion
  • 9 Future Perspectives
  • 9.1 Limits of statistical learning and probabilistic prediction
  • 9.2 Computational modelling
  • 9.3 Auditory representations
  • 9.4 Neural mechanisms
  • 9.5 Beyond music: Language, dance and other cultural domains
  • 9.6 Creativity: Musical performance and composition
  • 9.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index