Re: Difference between cognition and perception? (Douglas Eck )

Subject: Re: Difference between cognition and perception?
From:    Douglas Eck  <eckdoug(at)IRO.UMONTREAL.CA>
Date:    Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:29:01 -0400

I searched for the phrase "music cognition" and "music perception" (with
quotes around both), rather than the individual search terms.  I don't
know why..

 But then I don't know why yesterday it seemed funny  ;-)


Jorge Cardoso wrote:

>>>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
>>
>>
>
>Strange, I get very different 'googling' results (although I don't
>really know how reliable these are ;) :
>
>"music cognition" =  188,000 hits
>"music perception" = 1,090,000  hits
>
>Ratio = 5.80
>
>"visual cognition"= 267,000 hits
>"visual perception"= 1,430,000  hits
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>Ratio = 5.36
>
>jc
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