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Theories in this field are based on mental structures and processes
What is cognitive psychology?
Perception utilizes sensory information to make further sense of this
What is the world?
Bottom-up processing involves information arriving at these, setting the pattern recognition process into motion
What are sensory receptors?
Pitch contour appears to be an important cue in this kind of melodic memory, or the kind of memory that is temporary
What is short-term?
Expectations in music are guided by these
What are schemata?
During cognition, the listener must be this in the musical experience
What is an active participant?
This cognitive task plays an important role during perception
What is attention?
The assimilation and interpretation of new ideas based on past experience is known as this
What is apperception?
Music involves a process of communication among these three groups of people
What are composers, performers, and listeners?
This field examines the relationship between cerebral organization and mental functioning
What is neuropsychology?
This consists primarily of implicit, or nonverbal, procedures
What is musical expression?
Items stored in short-term memory can begin to fade after this amount of time unless they are repeated within that time period
What are 30 seconds?
Focusing on many simultaneous stimuli is this
What is divided attention?
This plays a key role in music cognition
What is past musical experience?
Patterns are recognized through higher level processes in this
What is top-down processing?
These two items play an important role in melodic identification
What are expectation and the presence of schemata?
This involves the transformation of energy that impinges upon any of our sensory receptors
What is sensation?
____ is required for ____ to occur, and _____ act upon knowledge gained from ______
What are sensory information, perception, cognitive processes, and perception?
The first aspect of melody that is stored upon hearing a new melody is this
This type of attention occurs when listening to a conversation at a large gathering
What is selective?
When referring to musical expression, these two characteristics stood out as what defined it the most
What are timing and amplitude?
This dual type of configuration that occurs frequently within a cultural context is stored in long-term memory
What is rhythmic-melodic?
This and musical information may be stored together in memory
What is verbal information?
This kind of perception occurs when recognized sounds are matched to their related schemata, but the sound did not physically occur
What is mistaken (or erroneous)?
These principles of organization include proximity, similarity, common direction, simplicity, and closure
What is Gestalt?