Peter Anthony Cariani / Medical School / peter_cariani@meei.harvard.edu

*Mind, Brain, and Behavior 91z, Mondays 3-5 p.m., William James Hall 6

Click here for syllabus from last year. Syllabus for this year will be similar but not the same.

Survey of neuropsychology of music. Examines psychological and neural substrates of music perception and cognition (pitch and consonance, melody and harmony, timbre, rhythm and meter, Gestaltist grouping processes). Then considers affective psychology (emotion, meaning, pleasure), music therapy, music and language, and developmental, comparative, and evolutionary perspectives. (catalog #91901)