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Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn: Music Perception and the Psychology of Enculturation

Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn: Music Perception and the Psychology of Enculturation

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Availability:In StockContributor:Marcus T. PearcePublish date:8/22/2025Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198848004ISBN-10:198848005UPC:9780198848004Book Category:Psychology, MusicBook Subcategory:Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Instruction & StudyBook Topic:TheorySize:9.80 x 7.10 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SC9JVAWN00

Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn: Music Perception and the Psychology of Enculturation

What accounts for the variety of music witnessed across the world? The answer lies in the psychological mechanisms of cultural evolution that combine a creative process of composing ever new forms of music and a perceptual process of learning to appreciate listening to them.

This book develops and tests a theory of the psychological mechanisms that enable listeners to learn the structure of their...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198848004ISBN-10:198848005UPC:9780198848004Book Category:Psychology, MusicBook Subcategory:Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Instruction & StudyBook Topic:TheorySize:9.80 x 7.10 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SC9JVAWN00
Marcus T. Pearce, Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

Marcus Pearce is currently Reader in Cognitive Science at Queen Mary University of London and Honorary Professor of Neuroscience at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has made wide-ranging contributions to the scientific literature on auditory perception and cognition including the entry on Music Perception in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of...
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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