Music
Undergraduate and Graduate Seminar
M 3:10-5PM
This course is an introductory seminar to a variety of key topics in the field of cognitive musicology, including human development, evolution, neural processing, embodied knowledge, memory and anticipation, cross-cultural perspectives, and emotions. The course explores recent research on these topics, as well as ways in which this research can be applied to music scholarship. Readings are drawn from fields as diverse as music theory, psychology, biology, anthropology, and neuroscience, and include general works in cognitive science, theoretical work focused on specific musical issues, and reports of empirical research.
Link to Vergil
Note: only courses offered during the two previous semesters have active Vergil links.