Music Perception & Cognition

Dr. Scott D. Lipscomb
Northwestern University - School of Music
programs: Music Cognition & Music Education

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Content Areas:

• Perception, the Basics
• Auditory Physiology
• Outer Ear
• Middle Ear
• Inner Ear
  • basilar membrane
  • organ of Corti
  • hair cells
• The Brain
  • Auditory Pathways
• Music Communication Model

Shockwave Movies/Demonstrations

• Canceled Harmonics
• Frequency Response of the Ear | Equal Loudness
• Formants & Resonance
• Gestalt Principles & Bregman's interleaved melodies
• Seashore Model (in progress)
• Stretched Octaves
• Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, opening of the 4th movement

Waveform Builder

• download: Windows | Mac