Sound and Reason

Synesthesia as Metacognition

Sven Hroar Klempe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

357 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-19-2339-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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./

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Sound
Zusatzinfo	24 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 357 p. 24 illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	African Music • de Saussure • european music • Heinz Werner • Human cognition • human processing of sound • Inuit music • linguistic wellformedness • Mikhael Bakhtin • musicalization • musicology • Noam Chomsky • orthogenetics • orthogenetic theory • Sámi music • Saussurian semiotics • Sensory Studies
ISBN-10	981-19-2339-6 / 9811923396
ISBN-13	978-981-19-2339-5 / 9789811923395
Zustand	Neuware