Academic Press Series in Cognition and Perception: A Series of Monographs and Treatises: Music Cognition focuses on the perception and cognition of music. The book first elaborates on the sense and perception of sound and timbre, consonance, and dissonance. Discussions focus on timbre, consonance and dissonance, sound waves, loudness, localization, music materials, music, cognition, and culture. The text then takes a look at musical scales and melody, including memory for melodic features, scales in other cultures, absolute pitch, Western scales and equal temperament, and alternative accounts. The manuscript ponders on melodic organization, rhythm and organization of time, emotion, and meaning, and cultural contexts of musical experience. Topics include function of music in society, description from within cultures, a cognitive theory of emotion, temporal experience, perception of rhythm, and cross-cultural studies. The book is a dependable reference for music experts and researchers interested in music cognition.

Music Cognition (Academic Press Series in Cognition & Perception)

Arts & Photography

Dowling, W. Jay

Harwood, J.L.

Music

Academic Press

Careful data collection and analysis lies at the heart of good research, through which our understanding of psychology is enhanced. Yet the students who will become the next generation of researchers need more exposure to statistics and experimental design than a typical introductory course presents. Experimental Design and Analysis for Psychology provides a complete course in data collection and analysis for students who need to go beyond the basics. Acting as a true course companion, the text's engaging writing style leads readers through a range of often challenging topics, blending examples and exercises with careful explanations and custom-drawn figures to ensure even the most daunting concepts can be fully understood. Opening with a review of key concepts, including probability, correlation, and regression, the book goes on to explore the analysis of variance and factorial designs, before moving on to consider a range of more specialised, but yet powerful, statistical tools, including the General Linear Model, and the concept of unbalanced designs. Not just a printed book, Experimental Design and Analysis for Psychology is enhanced by a range of online materials, all of which add to its value as an ideal teaching and learning resource. The Online Resource Centre features: For registered adopters: Figures from the book, available to download. Answers to exercises featured in the book. Online-only Part III: bonus chapters featuring more advanced material, to extend the coverage of the printed book. For students: A downloadable workbook, featuring exercises for self-study. SAS, SPSS and R companions, featuring program code and output for all major examples in the book tailored to these three software packages.

Experimental Design & Analysis for Psychology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Abdi, Hervé

Edelman, Betty

Valentin, Dominique

Psychology & Counseling

Oxford University Press

This translation of this classic text contains a balance of cultural and biological considerations. While arguing for the strong influence of exposure and of formal training on the way that music is perceived, Frances draws on the literature concerning the amusias to illustrate his points about the types of cognitive abstraction that are performed by the listener.

The Perception of Music

Frances, Robert

Psychology Press

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