Re: Difference between cognition and perception?

[Douglas Eck <eckdoug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I searched for the phrase "music cognition" and "music perception" (with
quotes around both), rather than the individual search terms.  I don't
know why..

But then I don't know why yesterday it seemed funny  ;-)


Jorge Cardoso wrote:

> > > The reason for the dominance of the perception concept in
> > music is that here
> >
> >
> > > cognition is not needed.
> > No cognition at all?  Though you cite strong evidence--I
> > agree, we have
> > no "Music Cognition" journal---the oracle (i.e. Google) suggests
> > something different::
> > "music cognition" = 7,880 hits
> > "music perception" = 14,800 hits
> >
> > Thus we can safely conclude with regard to music that there
> > is a roughly
> > 2 to 1 ratio of perception to cognition. This may not seem like much
> > cognition at all. But consider the visual analog:
> >
> > "visual cognition"= 16,300 hits
> > "visual perception"= 216,000 hits
> Strange, I get very different 'googling' results (although I don't
> really know how reliable these are ;) :
>
> "music cognition" =  188,000 hits
> "music perception" = 1,090,000  hits
>
> Ratio = 5.80
>
> "visual cognition"= 267,000 hits
> "visual perception"= 1,430,000  hits
>
> Ratio = 5.36
>
> jc
>
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