Special topics in musical acoustics/informatics/technology: Introduction to psychoacoustics and the cognitive psychology of music

Course Information
TitleΕιδικοί τομείς μουσικής ακουστικής/πληροφορικής/τεχνολογίας: Εισαγωγή στην ψυχοακουστική και γνωστική ψυχολογία της μουσικής / Special topics in musical acoustics/informatics/technology: Introduction to psychoacoustics and the cognitive psychology of music
CodeΥΑ0703
FacultyFine Arts
SchoolMusic Studies
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CommonNo
StatusInactive
Course ID160001285
Class Information
Academic Year2016 – 2017
Class PeriodWinter
Instructors from Other Categories
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600060878
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
  • Skills Development
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Before the completion of this course each student should be able to: 1. To understand and and display knowledge on fundamental concepts and experimental findings in both disciplines(Psychoacoustics & Music Cognition) 2. Demonstrate understanding of the related research methodology and experimental design 3. Demonstrate basic practical skills in conducting behavioral research 4. Demonstrate basic knowledge on experimental data collection and analysis 5. Become familiar with writing a research report and presenting research findings in scientific conferences.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Generate new research ideas
Course Content (Syllabus)
Psychoacoustics and the Cognitive Psychology of Music constitute two relatively young scientific disciplines which study human psychological response to sound and musical stimuli. Research in these domains has been concentrated in exploring fundamental aspects of physiological/mental processes that underlie cognitive processing of sound and music, as well as, in discovering the connections between these processes and general cognitive functions (i.e. perception, memory, attention, thinking, language). In the first part of this semester course an introduction to contemporary research on both disciplines is performed with emphasis on their constituent domains, by reviewing main theoretical and experimental findings. The subsequent part of the course concentrates on issues of experimental methodology with emphasis on experimental design, experiment administration, as well as, data collection, preprocessing and fundamentals of statistical analysis.
Keywords
Psychoacoustics, Cognitive Psychology, Perception, Music
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Video lectures
  • Audio
  • Multimedia
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
Both instruction and students’ practice are largely based on IC technologies. There are several types of software which is used most of the time during the semester, such as: 1. Electronic presentation software (e.g. MS PowerPoint) 2. Software for simulating and visualizing auditory processes. 3. Software for the assessment of music listening skills. 4. Software for statistical data analysis (e.g. PASW, Rattle etc) An online version of the course has been also implemented in Blackboard Learn e-Education platform.
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
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Seminars
Laboratory Work✓✓
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Student Assessment
Description
There are three types of student assessment based on the following activities: 1) Literature reading and presenting summaries on a specific topic in the class through the use of PowerPoint-based presentations. Every student will prepare and present 2-3 topics (30% of the final grade). 2) Implementation of a short experimental project. Every student will perform basic statistical analysis of experimental data drawn from earlier studies on music perception, prepare a summary of this work in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, and present it in the class (70% of the final grade). 3) Students may acquire additional grades if they participate as subjects to ongoing behavioral experiments organized by the department's post grads or academic staff members.
Student Assessment methods
  • Oral Exams (Summative)
  • Report (Summative)
  • Labortatory Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Παπαδέλης, Γεώργιος. (2007). Ζητήματα αντίληψης του μουσικού ρυθμού. Θεωρητική προσέγγιση, πειραματικά ευρήματα. Θεσσαλονίκη: University Studio Press. (ISBN 978-960-12-1623-2) Τσαούσης, Γιάννης και Ρούσσος, Πέτρος. (2011). Στατιστική στις επιστήμες της συμπεριφοράς με τη χρήση του SPSS. Μοτίβο εκδοτική Α.Ε.- Εκδόσεις ΤΟΠΟΣ. (ISBN 978-960-6863-69-1).
Additional bibliography for study
Παπαδέλης, Γεώργιος. (2008). Γλωσσική και μουσική αντίληψη: Αυτόνομα ή αλληλοεπικαλυπτόμενα γνωσιακά (νευρωνικά) υποσυστήματα; Στο: Ευδοκιμίδης, I. & Πόταγας, K. Συζητήσεις για τον Λόγο στο Αιγινήτειο. Αθήνα: Σύναψις. Krommyda, M., Papadelis, G., Chatzikallia, K., Pastiadis, K. & Kardaras, P. (2008). Does awareness of musical structure relate to general cognitive and literacy profile in children with learning disabilities? Proceedings of the Fourth conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM 08). Thessaloniki, Greece. Moritz, C., Yampolsky, S., Papadelis, G., Thomson, J., & Wolf, M. (2012). Links between early rhythm skills, musical training, and phonological awareness. Reading and Writing, 1–31. doi:10.1007/s11145-012-9389-0
Last Update
06-06-2015