
The following list identifies some of the courses related to the field of music cognition offered at the Ohio State University. N.B. Not all courses have web pages, and not all pertinent courses are identified here.
- Music 824: Computer Applications in Music Research.
The use of computers in music research, including historical research, music analysis, ethnomusicology, music education, and music perception and cognition.- Music 829(A): Perception of Melody and Voice-Leading.
A review of the perceptual and cognitive literatures related to melody and voice-leading.- Music 829(B): Consonance and Dissonance.
A review of the theoretical and experimental literatures related to the concepts of consonance and dissonance.- Music 829(C): Research Approaches in Systematic Musicology.
Philosophical and practical foundations in carrying out systematic music research.- Music 829(D): Music and Emotion.
An examination of modern ideas related to music and emotion, including physiological, evolutionary, cognitive, historical and cultural perspectives.- Music 829(E): Harmony and Voice-leading.
A review of the modern research literatures related to the perception and cognition of Western harmony and voice-leading.- Music 829(F): History of Music Psychology.
A survey of major personalities and ideas in the psychology of music, emphasizing the period since 1850.- Music 838: Seminar in Music Perception.
An examination of music as a phenomenon of human behavior and psyche. Topics include auditory and musical perception, music cognition, creativity and esthetic experience, active and passive listening, music and human emotions, and the social psychology of musical activities.- Music 839: Research Practicum in Music Perception.
Supervised individual research in music perception, including a review of relevant theoretical and methodological literature.- Music 950.01: Cognitive Ethnomusicology.
The study of "musical minds" in a cultural context. A survey of the existing literature of cross-cultural and non-Western monocultural studies by music cognition researchers, as well as work by ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and others examining cognitive processes in music.- Psychology 612: Introduction to Cognitive Science.
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary study of the nature of human thought: psychological, philosophical, linguistic, and artificial intelligence approaches to knowledge representation.- Psychology 625: Introduction to Auditory Perception.
Theory and research in auditory perception; traditional psychoacoustic and new ecological approaches.- Psychology 662: Psychology of Creativity.
A critical examination of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological problems related to the systematic study of creativity; special attention to background factors related to creative behavior.- Psychology 737: Proseminar in Cognitive Science.
An in-depth examination of the interdisciplinary field of Cognitive Science; emphasizes fundamental issues of each discipline, provides illustrations of representative research being conducted at OSU.- Psychology 874: Brain and Cognition.
Cognitive processes in perception, attention, memory, and language are examined from information processing and neuropsychological perspectives; emphasizes how cognition arises in the brain.