Lite spännande varianter om hur hörandets psykologi relaterar till bla musik utifrån högre kognitiva funktioner.
Conclusion In the past, approaches to sound perception have tended to focus on low-level factors, such as thresholds for pitch
and loudness and masking functions. Recently, however, the importance of higher-level, cognitive factors has become
increasingly evident, and there is growing recognition that the auditory system of the brain contains some remarkably ingenious
circuitry-perhaps the most ingenious of all the sensory modalities. The phenomena we have been examining illustrate the
operation of some of this circuitry, which has evolved to enable us to interpret our sound environment most effectively
Diana Deutsch is a British-American psychologist from London, England. She is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and is a prominent researcher on the psychology of music. Deutsch is primarily known for the illusions of music and speech that she discovered.
http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/pdf/SVC_1998_Sept.pdf