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9780262200813: Music and Connectionism

Sinopsis

As one of our highest expressions of thought and creativity, music has always been adifficult realm to capture, model, and understand. The connectionist paradigm, now beginning toprovide insights into many realms of human behavior, offers a new and unified viewpoint from whichto investigate the subtleties of musical experience. Music and Connectionism provides a freshapproach to both fields, using the techniques of connectionism and parallel distributed processingto look at a wide range of topics in music research, from pitch perception to chord fingering tocomposition.The contributors, leading researchers in both music psychology and neural networks,address the challenges and opportunities of musical applications of network models. The result is acurrent and thorough survey of the field that advances understanding of musical phenomenaencompassing perception, cognition, composition, and performance, and in methods for network designand analysis.Peter M. Todd is a doctoral candidate in the PDP Research Group of the PsychologyDepartment at Stanford University. Gareth Loy is an award-winning composer, a lecturer in the MusicDepartment of the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the technical staff of FroxInc.Contributors. Jamshed J. Bharucha. Peter Desain. Mark Dolson. Robert Gjerclingen. HenkjanHoning. B. Keith Jenkins. Jacqueline Jons. Douglas H. Keefe. Tuevo Kohonen. Bernice Laden. PauliLaine. Otto Laske. Marc Leman. J. P. Lewis. Christoph Lischka. D. Gareth Loy. Ben Miller. MichaelMozer. Samir I. Sayegh. Hajime Sano. Todd Soukup. Don Scarborough. Kalev Tiits. Peter M. Todd. KariTorkkola.

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As one of our highest expressions of thought and creativity, music has always been a difficult realm to capture, model, and understand. The connectionist paradigm, now beginning to provide insights into many realms of human behavior, offers a new and unified viewpoint from which to investigate the subtleties of musical experience. Music and Connectionism provides a fresh approach to both fields, using the techniques of connectionism and parallel distributed processing to look at a wide range of topics in music research, from pitch perception to chord fingering to composition.The contributors, leading researchers in both music psychology and neural networks, address the challenges and opportunities of musical applications of network models. The result is a current and thorough survey of the field that advances understanding of musical phenomena encompassing perception, cognition, composition, and performance, and in methods for network design and analysis.Peter M. Todd is a doctoral candidate in the PDP Research Group of the Psychology Department at Stanford University. Gareth Loy is an award-winning composer, a lecturer in the Music Department of the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the technical staff of Frox Inc.Contributors. Jamshed J. Bharucha. Peter Desain. Mark Dolson. Robert Gjerclingen. Henkjan Honing. B. Keith Jenkins. Jacqueline Jons. Douglas H. Keefe. Tuevo Kohonen. Bernice Laden. Pauli Laine. Otto Laske. Marc Leman. J. P. Lewis. Christoph Lischka. D. Gareth Loy. Ben Miller. Michael Mozer. Samir I. Sayegh. Hajime Sano. Todd Soukup. Don Scarborough. Kalev Tiits. Peter M. Todd. Kari Torkkola.

Biografía del autor

Peter M. Todd is Professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and Psychology at Indiana University. Gareth Loy is a musician and award-winning composer. He has published widely and, during a long and successful career at the cutting edge of multimedia computing, has worked as a researcher, lecturer, programmer, software architect, and digital systems engineer. He is President of Gareth, Inc., a provider of software engineering and consulting services internationally.

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9780262515504: Music and Connectionism (MIT Press)

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ISBN 10:  0262515504 ISBN 13:  9780262515504
Editorial: MIT Press (MA), 1991
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