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4. Listening in time
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
in The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction
Music unfolds dynamically, note by note, moment by moment. A performance cannot be taken in all at once; listeners must orient to each passing musical moment using memory systems to ...
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7. Broken brain: invention and intervention
Michael O’Shea
in The Brain: A Very Short Introduction
‘Broken brain’ explains the convergence of neuroscience and the physical sciences in the twenty-first century and beyond. The brain does not work like a normal computer, and there is ...
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6. Memories are made of this
Michael O’Shea
in The Brain: A Very Short Introduction
‘Memories are made of this’ compares different types of memory. There are distinct systems for short term and long term memory. Short term memory is transient. Long term memory, on the ...
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The Brain: A Very Short Introduction
Michael O'Shea
How does the brain work? The Brain, A Very Short Introduction provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how ...
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2. The biological origins of music
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
in The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction
Vocal and instrumental music exists in all known human cultures. The age and ubiquity of music seem to argue that its origins are biological. But the diversity of musical practices around ...
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