New book: Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn
Marcus Pearce, Honorary Professor at MIB and Reader at Queen Mary University of London, publishes new book on music perception and the psychology of enculturation.
What accounts for the enormous variety of music created and enjoyed the world over?
"Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn" presents a theory of music perception based on psychological processes of statistical learning and probabilistic prediction. The theory is tested by developing and evaluating a computational model of the perceptual learning underlying cultural evolution of music, accounting for the human capacity to take pleasure in listening to music. The results account for multiple psychological processes involved in musical listening, from low-level perception to high-level affect, and simulate developmental trajectories underlying cross-cultural differences in musical appreciation.
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