Professor: Jonathan Berger (brg@ccrma.stanford.edu), office hours: MW 12–2pm by appt.
TA: Miriam Kolar (kolar@ccrma.stanford.edu), office hours: MW 9–10am
Class meeting: MW 10–11:50am in the CCRMA Classroom (Knoll 217)
Additional announcements, materials, and details posted on Coursework.
Week Date Topics, Readings Assignment/Project Work 1 W 4/2 Questioning music behavior Choose question 2 M 4/7 Hearing and listening; Submit question & hypothesis Pitch structures: sensory consonance and dissonance; roughness W 4/9 - Guest Lecture: Pantelis Vassilakis Lab: Spectra and Beats "Culture-dependent emotional reactions to music: auditory roughness, cultural background, and musical tension-release judgments." 3 M 4/14 Attention and arousal Submit hypothesis/initial literature review (due 4/18) W 4/16 Memory - Guest Lecture: Rebecca Schaefer, Radboud U. Nijmegen, Netherlands Reading (on Coursework): Different Interference Effects SUPPLEMENTAL READING: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/icmpc04.pdf 4 M 4/21 Time and rhythm Reading: Experimental Design W 4/23 Lab: Time and Spectral Structure in Speech and Melody Recognition (due 4/23) W 4/23 *Special Events: Lunch with Evelyn Glennie; Concert 8pm in Memorial Auditorium 5 M 4/28 Consonance and dissonance; Timbre and texture Singing in the Shower assigned (due 5/15) W 4/30 Timbre - Guest Lecture: Hiroko Terasawa, CCRMA PhD Candidate Submit initial experiment design (due 4/30) READING: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10331/32894/01540234.pdf In-Class Discussion of Experiment Design (present short summary) In class, present short summary of experiment design 6 M 5/5 Project Workshop Meet w/JB or MK; Finalize experiment design; schedule experiment pilot W 5/7 Grouping Lab: Musical Ambiguity (due 5/11) 7 M 5/12 Guest Lecture: John Chowning DAFX paper (assigned Week 1) Schedule and run experiment pilot W 5/14 Emotion Take-Home Midterm (given 5/14, due 5/19) F 5/16 *Special Event: Music and the Brain Symposium S 5/17 *Special Event: Music and the Brain Symposium 8 M 5/19 Expectation Run experiment pilot W 5/21 In-Class Experiments Run experiment pilot 9 M 5/26 NO CLASS, Memorial Day Holiday W 5/28 Course wrap-up Analyze data, draft presentation 10 M 6/2 Project Presentations (materials on your website; details on Coursework) Presentation link due 9am Monday W 6/4 Project Presentations Exam M 6/9 NOTE NEW DEADLINE Project Writeup due by 9am (details on Coursework)
Last modified: 1 June 2008