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Title
Sound and reason : synesthesia as metacognition / Sven Hroar Klempe.
ISBN
9789811923401 (electronic bk.)
981192340X (electronic bk.)
9789811923395 (print)
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 357 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-2340-1 doi
Call Number
BF495
Dewey Decimal Classification
152.1/89
Summary
This book is about the human mental capacities that are mostly veiled in the use of language yet can be revealed through music activities. In speech, just one word is articulated at the time, whereas in music different pitches sound simultaneously. This conflict demonstrates that rationality must be regarded as relative, as rationality in music may create chaos in speech. Moreover, investigating the role of sound in synesthesia reveals that its aesthetic combinations are related to the human capacity to enjoy different types of harmonies in music. Drawing on new research regarding synesthesia as a more fundamental basis for human cognition, this book brings this a step further by introducing synesthesia as a general metacognitive process, hinting at the aesthetical origin of fundamental logical operations. Bringing together a number of cultural perspectives on music, language, and mathematics, this volume expertly illustrates that music reveals a fundamental system that deeply combines the sensorial and the intellectual human capacities. Sven Hroar Klempe (born 1955, Mag.art., Dr.art.) is full Professor in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. His background includes full Professor in Musicology, Assoc. Prof. in Media Studies, teacher and journalist.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 14, 2022).
Series
Palgrave studies in sound, 2633-5883
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Understanding of Music in Early Psychology and Musicology
Chapter 3. The Experimental Psychology's Use of Music to Uncover Mental Capabilities
Chapter 4. Polyphony as a Higher Mental Function
Chapter 5. A Psychological Approach to Complexity: Synesthesia
Chapter 6. Sound and Communication
Chapter 7. Systems and Complexity
Chapter 8. Musical Systems
Chapter 9. Music in Literature
Chapter 10. From Synesthesia to Metacognition.
