Subject: Re: Difference between cognition and perception? From: Douglas Eck <eckdoug(at)IRO.UMONTREAL.CA> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:37:59 -0400>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 Best, Doug -- Dr. Douglas Eck, Assistant Professor University of Montreal, Department of Computer Science CP 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7 CANADA Office: 3385 Pavillion Andre-Aisenstadt Phone: 1-514-343-6111 ext 3520 Fax: 1-514-343-5834 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~eckdoug Research Areas: Machine Learning and Music Cognition