Subject: Re: Difference between cognition and perception? From: Eliot Handelman <eliot(at)GENERATION.NET> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:14:05 -0400Odd Torleiv Furnes wrote: > > Second, as the prime aspect of > listening to music probably is that of pattern detection, memory - > both of > the recent unfolding events and of stored musical schemas - is active. Despite the fact that you're reiterating a point I made in an earlier post, I don't agree that "pattern detection" is "THE prime aspect of listening to music." THE prime aspect of listening to music is the fact that it has affective significance. It's easy to say, "well we must extract such significance from patterns," but we don't know that for a fact. For example, it's completely not clear in what way "patterns" are at work in our appreciation of harmony, or the tone quality of mother's lullaby-ing voice. If Martin is arguing against cognition here, he possibly has something like affect in mind as the basic factor in music. After all, enjoyment is at issue, the question is whether this enjoyment necessarily takes the form of a cognitive parse. I say it does at a microlevel, but there are clearly many other factors. -- eliot