Unit 2 – Memory and musical events

All Unit 2 materials are due at 7am Mountain Daylight Time on Friday, June 3.

Unit introduction

What is a musical note? a chord? rhythm? Do musicians define these differently than cognitive scientists? What exactly do we hear when we listen to music?

We will continue to engage these and other related questions from Unit 1 during this unit, as we further explore the workings of the human auditory system and basic musical concepts.

Core concepts

In this unit, we will explore the following core concepts:

• (musical) events
• echoic memory
• primitive auditory grouping
• learned auditory grouping
• habituation

Assignments

Read/watch the following:

• Music and Memory, Chapter 2, “Echoic Memory”
• Music and Memory, Chapter 3, “Grouping”
• Music and Memory, Chapter 10, “Event Fusion”

Then take Quiz 2 on D2L.

Choose one core concept from Unit 1 and one core concept from Unit 2. Write a paragraph explanation of each concept with a musical example, and upload as a MS Word doc or a PDF file to the D2L dropbox. (See Assignment guide for details.)

Finally, submit your Week 1 self-reflection to the D2L dropbox. (See Assignment guide for details.)