Introduction
This chapter is an introduction to Section 3 (Learning of processing), covering Chapters 16–20. In the next chapter, the target article, the argument frames musical communication as an alignment of brain states. It argues that music and language differ in the sense that language serves primarily as a code to communicate meaning (in terms of propositions and propositional attitudes) whereas music communicates structure, affect, and motion, and affords synchronization across individuals. The chapter then presents a formal model of alignment based on the representation of brain state vectors and discusses a connectionist approach to modelling tonal vectors in music, based on Bharucha's MUSACT model. This is followed by commentaries.
Keywords: musical communication, music, brain states, language, tonal vectors, MUSACT model, alignment
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