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“marcus pearce”

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  • Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn

    Music Perception and the Psychology of Enculturation

    by Marcus T. Pearce ...
    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 ... Read more

    $102.69 CAD

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    Your Exceptional Life

    Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

    by Marcus Pearce ...
    Narrated by Marcus Pearce ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    Is There a Secret to Living an Exceptional Life?Yes there is! And it may not be what you think.... Marcus Pearce has interviewed more than 200 of the world’s most successful men and women. From diet experts to war survivors to everyday Exceptionals and some of humanity’s greatest icons. What makes them exceptional? What’s their secret?Is an exceptional life in our genes, the air we breathe, the ... Read more

    $26.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Music Language and the Brain

    by Aniruddh D. Patel ...
    In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Since Plato's time the relationship between music and language has attracted interest and debate from a wide range of thinkers. Recently scientific research on this topic ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

    How Music Plays the Mind

    by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis ...
    What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD

  • Handbook of Music and Emotion

    Theory, Research, Applications

    Edited by Patrik N. Juslin, John Sloboda ...
    Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book 'Music and Emotion' (OUP, 2001) was critically and commercially successful and stimulated much further work in this area. In the years since publication of that book, empirical research in this area has blossomed, and the successor to ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

    Edited by Keith Frankish, William Ramsey ...
    Cognitive science is a cross-disciplinary enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind. In recent years, investigators in philosophy, psychology, the neurosciences, artificial intelligence, and a host of other disciplines have come to appreciate how much they can learn from one another about the various dimensions of cognition. The result has been the emergence of one of the most ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Rhythm, Music, and the Brain

    Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications

    by Michael Thaut ...
    Series series Studies on New Music Research
    With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human brain "live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based sensory language quickly became a fascinating topic of study. The question of "how" music moves us, stimulates our thoughts, feelings, and kinesthetic sense, and how it can reach the human experience in profound ways is now measured with ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Brain and Music

    by Stefan Koelsch ...
    A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brainCovers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music and emotionIncludes general introductory chapters to engage a broad readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for expertsOffers the most empirical ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Cognitive Science

    An Embodied Approach

    Edited by Paco Calvo, Toni Gomila ...
    Series series Perspectives on Cognitive Science
    The Handbook of Cognitive Science provides an overview of recent developments in cognition research, relying upon non-classical approaches. Cognition is explained as the continuous interplay between brain, body, and environment, without relying on classical notions of computations and representation to explain cognition. The handbook serves as a valuable companion for readers interested in ... Read more

    $159.19 CAD

  • The Origins of Musicality

    Edited by Henkjan Honing ...
    Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music.Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves “unmusical.” This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Psychology of Music

    Edited by Diana Deutsch ...
    Series series Cognition and Perception
    The Psychology of Music serves as an introduction to an interdisciplinary field in psychology, which focuses on the interpretation of music through mental function. This interpretation leads to the characterization of music through perceiving, remembering, creating, performing, and responding to music. In particular, the book provides an overview of the perception of musical tones by discussing ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Mind, Body, World

    Foundations of Cognitive Science

    by Michael R. W. Dawson ...
    Series series OPEL (Open Paths to Enriched Learning)
    Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field’s immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD