Aesthetic Concepts, Perceptual Learning, and Linguistic Enculturation: Considerations from Wittgenstein, Language, and Music

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 90-117

  Croom, Adam M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetic Concepts; Imagination; Music; Perceptual Learning; Wittgenstein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856000296     PISSN: 19324502     EISSN: 19363567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-011-9184-5     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Altham, J. (1986). The legacy of emotivism. In G. MacDonald & C. Wright (Eds.), Fact, science and morality (pp. 275-288). Oxford: Blackwell.
2. Altmann, G., & Dienes, Z. (1999). Rule learning by seven-month-old infants and neural networks. Science, 284, 875a.
3. Ayer, A. (1952). Language, truth and logic. New York: Dover.
4. Bharucha, J., & Stoeckig, K. (1986). Reaction time and musical expectancy: priming of chords. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 12, 403-410.
5. Bharucha, J., & Stoeckig, K. (1987). Priming of chords: spreading activation or overlapping frequency spectra? Perception and Psychophysics, 41, 519-524.
6. Blackburn, S. (1992). Through thick and thin. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, 66, 285-299.
7. Blomberg, O. (2007). Disentangling the thick concept argument. Sats-Nordic Journal of Philosophy, 8, 63-78.
8. Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. (1985). Culture and the evolutionary process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
9. Burton, S. (1992). 'Thick' concepts revised. Analysis, 52, 28-32.
10. Camp, E. (2008). Showing, telling and seeing: Metaphor and "poetic" language. In E. Camp (Ed.), The Baltic international yearbook of cognition, logic and communication, volume 3: A figure of speech (pp. 1-24). New Prairie Press.
11. Camp, E. (2009). Two varieties of literary imagination: metaphor, fiction, and thought experiments. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 33, 107-130.
12. Christiansen, M., & Curtin, S. (1999). Transfer of learning: rule acquisition or statistical learning? Trends in Cognitive Science, 3, 289-290.
13. Chowdhury, S., & DeAngelis, G. (2008). Fine discrimination training alters the causal contribution of macaque area MT to depth perception. Neuron, 60, 367-377.
14. Croom, A. (2010). Thick concepts, non-cognitivism, and Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations. South African Journal of Philosophy, 29, 286-309.
15. Croom, A. (2011). Slurs. Language Sciences, 33, 343-358.
16. Curtis, M., & Bharucha, J. (2009). Memory and musical expectation for tones in cultural contexts. Music Perception, 26, 365-375.
17. Dancy, J. (1996). In defense of thick concepts. Midwest studies in philosophy, XX: Moral Concepts, 263-279.
18. de Lima, L. (2007). From body resonances to cultural values: Insights on music, analysis, and mediations. Journal of Music and Meaning, 4, section 6.
19. Dummett, M. (1959). Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics. The Philosophical Review, 68, 324-348.
20. Gibbard, A. (1992). Thick concepts and warrant for feelings. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, 66, 267-284.
21. Goldstone, R. (1998). Perceptual learning. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 585-612.
22. Greenwald, A. (1970). Sensory feedback mechanisms in performance control: with special reference to the ideomotor mechanism. Psychological Review, 77, 73-99.
23. Greenwald, A. (1972). On doing two things at once: time sharing as a function of ideomotor compatibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 94, 52-57.
24. Gu, Y., Liu, S., Fetsch, C., Yang, Y., Fok, S., Sunkara, A., et al. (2011). Perceptual learning reduces interneuronal correlations in macaque visual cortex. Neuron, 71, 750-761.
25. Guyer, P. (2005). Values of beauty: Historical essays in aesthetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26. Hahn, T. (2007). Sensational knowledge: Embodying culture through Japanese dance. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
27. Hannon, E., & Trehub, S. (2005). Tuning in to musical rhythms: infants learn more readily than adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 12639-12643.
28. Hare, R. (1970). The language of morals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
29. Hauser, M., Weiss, D., & Marcus, G. (2002). Rule learning by Cotton-top tamarins. Cognition, 86, B51-B22.
30. Hommel, B., Musseler, J., Aschersleben, G., & Prinz, W. (2001). The theory of event coding (TEC): a framework for perception and action planning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 849-937.
31. Hume, D. (1998a). An enquiry concerning the principles of morals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
32. Hume, D. (1998b). An enquiry concerning human understanding. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
33. Hume, D. (2007). Of the standard of taste. In Essays: Moral, political and literary (pp. 231-258). (First published 1757). New York: Cosimo Classics.
34. Hyde, K., Lerch, J., Norton, A., Forgeard, M., Winner, E., Evans, A., et al. (2009). Musical training shapes structural brain development. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 3019-3025.
35. James, W. (1981). The principles of psychology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (First published in 1890).
36. Justus, T., & Bharucha, J. (2001). Modularity in music processing: the automaticity of harmonic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 1000-1011.
37. Kant, I. (2000). In P. Guyer (Ed.), Critique of the power of judgment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
38. Kraus, N., Skoe, E., Parbery-Clark, A., & Ashley, R. (2009). Experience-induced malleability in neural encoding of pitch, timbre, and timing. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169, 543-557.
39. Kripke, S. (1982). Wittgenstein: On rules and private language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
40. Kuhl, P., & Rivera-Gaxiola, M. (2008). Neural substrates of language acquisition. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 31, 511-534.
41. Kuhl, P., Stevens, E., Hayashi, A., Deguchi, T., Kiritani, S., & Iverson, P. (2006). Infants shown a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months. Developmental Science, 9, F13-F21.
42. Laland, K., Odling-Smee, F., & Feldman, M. (2000). Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 131-146.
43. Law, C., & Gold, J. (2008). Neural correlates of perceptual learning in a sensory-motor, but not a sensory, cortical area. Nature Neuroscience, 11, 505-513.
44. Law, C., & Gold, J. (2009). Reinforcement learning can account for associative and perceptual learning on a visual-decision task. Nature Neuroscience, 12, 655-663.
45. Lotze, R. (1852). Medicinische psychologie oder physiologie der seele. Weidmann.
46. Mackie, J. (1977). Ethics: Inventing right and wrong. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
47. Marcus, G., Vijayan, S., Rao, S., & Vishton, P. (1999). Rule learning by seven-month-old infants. Science, 283, 77-80.
48. McDowell, J. (1981). Non-cognitivism and rule-following. In S. Holtzman & C. Leich (Eds.), Wittgenstein: To follow a rule (pp. 141-162). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
49. McDowell, J. (1996a). Mind and world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
50. McDowell, J. (1996b). Precis of "Mind and world." Philosophical Issues, 7: Perception, 231-239.
51. McDowell, J. (1998). Mind, value, and reality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
52. Monson, I. (2007). Hearing, seeing, and perceptual agency. Critical Inquiry, 34, S36-S58.
53. Meyer, L. (1956). Emotion and meaning in music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
54. Pons, E., Lewkowicz, D., Soto-Faraco, S., & Sebastian-Galles, N. (2009). Narrowing of intersensory speech perception in infancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 10598-10602.
55. Prinz, W. (1987). Ideo-motor action. In H. Heuer & A. Sanders (Eds.), Perspectives on perception and action (pp. 47-76). Hillsdale: Erlbaum.
56. Prinz, W. (2002). Experimental approaches to imitation. In A. Meltzoff & W. Prinz (Eds.), The imitative mind: Development, evolution, and brain bases (pp. 143-162). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
57. Rietveld, E. (2008). Situated normativity: the normative aspect of embodied cognition in unreflective action. Mind, 117, 973-1001.
58. Rorty, R. (1987). Unfamiliar noises I: Hesse and Davidson on metaphor. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, 61, 283-296.
59. Schnupp, J., Nelken, I., & King, A. (2011). Auditory neuroscience: Making sense of sound. Cambridge: MIT.
60. Shaftesbury, A. (1999). Characteristics of men, manners, opinions, times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (First published 1711).
61. Steinbeis, N., Koelsch, S., & Sloboda, J. (2006). The role of harmonic expectancy violations in musical emotions: evidence from subjective, physiological, and neural responses. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1380-1393.
62. Stevenson, C. (1937). The emotive meaning of ethical terms. Mind, New Series, 46, 14-31.
63. Stroud, B. (1965). Wittgenstein and logical necessity. The Philosophical Review, 74, 504-518.
64. Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2005). Conceptual foundations of evolutionary psychology. In D. Buss (Ed.), The handbook of evolutionary psychology (pp. 5-67). Hoboken: Wiley.
65. Weston, M. (2010). Forms of our life: Wittgenstein and the later Heidegger. Philosophical Investigations, 33, 245-265.
66. Williams, B. (1985). Ethics and the limits of philosophy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
67. Wittgenstein, L. (1953). In G. E. M. Anscombe & R. Rhees (Eds.), Philosophical investigations. Oxford: Blackwell.
68. Wittgenstein, L. (1970). Zettle. G. E. M. Anscombe (Trans.). Berkeley: University of California Press.
69. Wittgenstein, L. (1974). In R. Rhees (Ed.), Philosophical grammar. Berkeley: University of California Press.
70. Wittgenstein, L. (1978). Lectures in aesthetics. In L. Wittgenstein (Ed.), Lectures and conversations on aesthetics, psychology and religious belief (pp. 1-40). Oxford: Blackwell. First published 1966.
71. Zhang, Y., Kuhl, P., Imada, T., Kotani, M., & Tohkura, Y. (2005). Effects of language experience: neural commitment to language-specific auditory patterns. NeuroImage, 26, 703-720.