Musical Rhythm and Other Areas of Cognition

What Musical Rhythm Shares with Other Areas of Cognition

• Physical vs. perceptual phenomena
• Grouping, segmentation
• Hierarchical organization
• Streaming
• Figure, ground
• Role of similarity, analogy
• Invariance and selective attention

What's Special About Musical Rhythm

• Timing, periodicity, short-term memory (common to other sorts of periodic phenomena)
• Interaction of timing and melody

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Last updated: 19 October 1995
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