Music Perception and Cognition: A Review of Recent Cross-Cultural Research

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 653-667

  Stevens, Catherine J ^a  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Empirical cognitive ethnomusicology; Entrainment; Expectations; Meter; Multimodal perception; Pitch; Rhythm; Universals

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSIC; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MOVEMENT; MUSIC; PERIODICITY; PITCH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84867604207     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01215.x     Document Type: Review

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