I really enjoyed the readings this week (in Musicophelia). It was a great new way to look at music. I have worked with psychological issues for years but I never had a client with any of these musical sensitivities (not counting schizophrenics who think the radio is talking to them or the songs REALLY are about them... etc). I actually had a lot of those! So I was intrigued, even though none of it surprised me exactly.
I was interested in page 15 where it talks about the centers of the brain that show developement in these musical abilities, it said that the other dominance in people that don't have that development is in abstraction and language. Since I have no musical abilities, I found that of interest also. There is no question that abstraction is no problem for me and I would say that is also true of languages. It was a fascinating concept, like saying that left handed people are more artistic and all that.
The field of music cognition was great!
These are wonderful questions they are addressing, I just wish they had more development here. The articles on the next music cog site were interesting.
The last site looked pretty neat (the origins of music) but really, there didn't seem to be a whole lot to it. I am not sure that people who might really use it would find it, but perhaps.
I think it is wonderful that these questions are being studied, hopfully this will lead to some new exciting research, I mean hey- they are doing things like this that relate to autism so- why not?
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