Re: Difference between cognition and perception?

[Douglas Eck <eckdoug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The reason for the dominance of the perception concept in music is that here
> cognition is not needed.
No cognition at all?  Though you cite strong evidence--I agree, we have
no "Music Cognition" journal---the oracle (i.e. Google) suggests
something different::
"music cognition" = 7,880 hits
"music perception" = 14,800 hits

Thus we can safely conclude with regard to music that there is a roughly
2 to 1 ratio of perception to cognition. This may not seem like much
cognition at all. But consider the visual analog:

"visual cognition"= 16,300 hits
"visual perception"= 216,000 hits

Best,
Doug

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