A Crash Course in the Neuropsychology of Music (Part I)
Peter Cariani
Wed Jan 19, 07:30-09:30pm, E25-119
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 50 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
A Crash Course in the Neuropsychology of Music"
Part I: What we hear - structural aspects of music
These two lectures provide an overview of the current state of the neuropsychology of music.
In the first lecture we will introduce basic questions, such as what is music? What are the many psychological and social functions that music fulfills? We will then take a look at the basic auditory qualities that music utilizes: loudness, pitch, timbre, consonance, harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, the time sense. Basic Gestaltist mechanisms group together sounds with harmonic structure, sonic events having similar qualities, and repeating sequences of events (chunks). We will survey the respective uses of these auditory qualities, groupings, and patterns in music and examine some of the auditory and general brain codes and computations that may subserve them.
Contact: Joseph R Stein, E25-518, 452-4091, jrstein@mit.edu
Sponsor: Health Sciences & Technology
Latest update: 11-Jan-2011
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