"Music plays with our hearing, our memory, our emotions and our expectations in a fascinating way. But as listeners we’re often unaware of the fact that we ourselves play an active role in what makes music so exhilarating, soothing and inspiring. In reality, the listening doesn’t happen in the outer world of audible sound but in the inner world of our minds and brains." From Musical Cognition. This Web site describes research in music cognition using theoretical, empirical and computational methods. Next to information about the research, the site (online since 1994) contains articles, sound examples, QuickTime movies, online experiments and demonstrations. The Music Cognition Group (MCG) is part of the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), and the Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and is housed at Science Park Amsterdam (SP). Updated: 18 May 2013 contact(at)musiccognition(dot)nl

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