Overview of Psychology and Music
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Tuesday, September 3

Opening discussion: What do you know, what do you expect?

Thursday September 5
Seashore (1938) Psychology of Music, chapters 1-3
Anglada-Tort and Sanfilippo (2019) Visualizing Music Psychology

Evolution & Music: Why is there music and after all, what is it?

Tuesday September 10
Readings:
Huron (1999) An instinct for music: Is music an Evolutionary adaptation?
Hodges (2004) Screech, Hoot, and Chirp: Natural Soundscapes and Human Musicality

Thursday September 12
Readings:

Mehr et. al. (2017) Genomic imprinting in implicated in the Psychology of Music
Chanda & Levitin (2013) The neurochemistry of music.

Tuesday September 17
Readings:

Ploeger et. al. (2012) Evolution and Music Cognition

Evolution: Music and Language: Is music just a side effect?
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Thursday September 19
Readings:

Patel (2003) Language, music, syntax, and the brain. Nature Neuroscience, 6(7), 674-681.
Patel & Peretz (1997) Is music autonomous from language? A neuropsychological appraisal, found in Deliege, I. & Sloboda, J. (1997) Perception and Cognition of Music. Psychology Press, East Sussex, UK

Musical Ability , Individual Differences, and Listener’s Responses to Music
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Thursday September 26
Readings:
Tan, McPherson, Peretz, Berkovic, & Wilson (2014) The genetic basis of musical ability

Levitin (2012) What does it mean to be musical?
Sloboda and O’Neill (2001) Functions of music in everyday life: An exploratory study using the Experience Sampling Method.

Tuesday October 1
Readings:
Zillman and Gan (1997) Musical taste in adolescence.
Rentfrow & Gosling ( 2003) The Do Re Mi’s of Everyday Life: Examining the Structure and Personality Correlates of Music Preferences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(6), 1236-1256
Greenberg et. al. (2016) The song is you: Preferences for musical attribute dimensions reflect personality.

Exercise: Seashore Measures of Musical Talents

Emotional Responses to Music
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Thursday October 3
Readings:
Sloboda & Juslin (2001) Psychological perspectives on music & emotion.
Shubert (2001) Continuous measurement of self-report emotional response to music.
Lab Day: Measures of Heartrate, SCR, and Smiling during music listening

First set of two journal summaries due October 3

Tuesday October 8
Readings:

Vuoskoski and Eerola (2012) Can sad music really make you sad?
Witvliet & Vrana (2007) Play it again Sam: Repeated exposure to emotionally evocative music polarizes liking
Gabrielson (2001) Emotions in strong experiences with music.

Music and Social Influence
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Thursday October 10:
Readings:
Crozier (1997) Music and social influence
Zander (2006) Musical influences in advertising: How music modifies first impressions of product endorsers and brands.

Music Therapy

Tuesday October 15
Readings:
Blunt (1997) Clinical and therapeutic uses of Music.
Thaut & Wheeler (2010) Music Therapy.
http://www.berklee.edu/majors/music_therapy.html
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/58925/music_therapy/
http://www.musictherapy.org/
http://www.bsmt.org/

Thursday, October 17: Lab Day

Thursday October 17 Midterm Test

Fall Break October 19-22, 2019

Music Perception and Cognition
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Thursday October 24

Readings:
Simonton (2001) Emotion and Composition in Classical Music
Williamson et. al. (2004) Creativity in music performance

Perception of Rhythm, Voices
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Tuesday October 29

Deliege (1997)
Clarke (1999) Rhythm and Timing in Music

Thursday October 31
Krumhansl (1979) The Psychological Representation of Musical Pitch in a Tonal Context, Cognitive Psychology, 11, 346-374.
Krumhansl (2000) Rhythm and Pitch in Music Cognition. Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 126, No. 1. 159-179

Learning and Remembering Melodies.
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Tuesday, November 5

Levitin (1994) Absolute memory for musical pitch
Dowling (1994) Melodic Contour in Hearing and Remembering Melodies.
Sundberg (1999) The Perception of Singing

Musical Performance ===============================================================
Thursday November 7

Overview Gabrielson (1999) The Performance of Music.

Tuesday, November 12

Thursday November 14 Lab Day

Steptoe (2001) Negative emotions in music making
West (2004) Drugs and musical performance

Thursday November 21 and Tuesday November 26 Meetings to discuss papers

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Tuesday, December 3 - Thursday December 12, 2019
Student Presentations
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Final Exam: Take home test due at 3:30 PM on Wednesday, December 18, 2019