Perception as an active process

Music perception is more than just listening. Our own experiences as humans with bodies shape the way we perceive different phenomena. For instance, we know how to produce a clapping sound. This means that perceiving the sound of a clap is not just receiving and interpreting the sound signal, but perceiving the action “clapping”.

Action and Co-Articulation

In this week's terminology track we will explore the concept of action.

From the theory track you have learned that an embodied approach to cognition is based on the idea that we make sense of the world through our whole bodies. Furthermore, the affordance concept tells us that objects have certain action "properties", and that we are immediately aware of these properties.

Sound-producing actions

What are sound-producing actions? In this video we look at the difference between motion and action. We learn about different types of sound-producing actions: impulsive, sustained and iterative.