Psychology, Neuroscience, and Music
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Welcome to the Music Cognition Lab
at Tufts University
| Music cognition is the study of how the brain uses musical stimuli to build representations of the many aspects of music, including pitch, rhythm, timbre and tonality. |
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| We use several experimental methods to learn about the perception of music. Behavioral measures, such as reaction times and error rates, serve as indices of cognitive processing. We use electroencephalography (EEG) to measure the brain's patterns of electrical activity, which we analyze as event-related potentials (ERPs). Neural networks allow us to model human perception of pitch and tonality. |
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