Musical Illusions and Phantom Words - How Music and Speech Unlock Mysteries of the Brain

List of contents

• List of Modules (QR codes)


• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Music, Speech, and Handedness


• Chapter 2: Some Musical Illusions are Discovered


• Chapter 3: The Perceptual Organization of Streams of Sound


• Chapter 4: Strange Loops and Circular Tones


• Chapter 5: The Tritone Paradox: An Influence of Speech on How Music is Perceived


• Chapter 6: The Mystery of Absolute Pitch: A Rare Ability That Involves both Nature and Nurture


• Chapter 7: Phantom Words: Our Knowledge, Beliefs and Expectations Create Illusions of Speech


• Chapter 8: Catchy Music and Earworms


• Chapter 9: Hallucinations of Music and Speech


• Chapter 10: The Speech-To-Song Illusion: Crossing the Borderline between Speech and Song


• Chapter 11: Speech and Music Intertwined: Clues to Their Origins


• Notes


• References


• Index

About the author

Diana Deutsch is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. A leading researcher on the psychology of music, she is noted for her discovery of musical illusions, and her work on perfect pitch. Deutsch is editor of the book The Psychology of Music, and creator of the compact discs Musical Illusions and Paradoxes, and Phantom Words and Other Curiosities. Among many other honors, she was awarded the Gold Medal Award by the Audio Engineering Society.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Deutsch, Diana (Professor of Psychology Deutsch, Deutsch Diana
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2019
• EAN: 9780190206833
• ISBN: 978-0-19-020683-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Music, MUSIC / General, MEDICAL / Neurology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Cognitivism, cognitive theory