Simplicity and complexity in music and cognition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3858499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Jay Dowling (The University of Texas at Dallas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 247-253 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Music Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-4467 • E-ISSN: 1477-2256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07494468900640331 |
| OpenAlex | W1999945267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
There are three areas that have been touched upon in this conference about which I will comment. First, there is the issue of what I have come to call the “skimpiness” of stimuli in many experimental studies of music cognition. Second, there is the issue of whether there are cognitive universals constraining musical understanding and structure, and if there are, what we should make of them. Third, I take up the nature of mental representations involved in music cognition, suggesting that a considerable amount of the knowledge that guides listening and provides an interpretation of what we hear is implicit and procedural, rather than explicit and declarative
Active listening · Art · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Linguistics · Music education · Music psychology · Musical · Problem of universals · Simplicity · Visual arts · Cognitive Science and Education Research · Communication · Music and Audio Processing · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Highly cited | No |