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	<title>musical thoughts &#187; music cognition</title>
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	<description>transfusing emptiness into vacancy</description>
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		<title>abstraction is a mental lever</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the heck is this guy talking about now? Mental lever? Like a crowbar for your brain?

Alright, a while back I introduced the mental representation of music idea, and talked about how mental manipulation of musical imagery is what trained musicians do. I&#8217;ve been having some conversation with a friend recently who&#8217;s trying to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Expert Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a great article in the July 24, 2006 issue of Scientific American titled The Expert Mind. They did some work studying chess experts in order to learn some things about the brain. The payoff for us musicians is that idea of &#8220;manipulating mental representations&#8221; that I&#8217;ve previously discussed. Just like Chess experts can recall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>where&#8217;s the posts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty wrapped up right now reading a book I just got my hands on: Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation by David Huron. I have plans for a full review by my initial impression is that this is a really useful book for those of us interested in how music affects people.
There&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mental representation of music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When musicians learn a piece of music, they don&#8217;t commit a detailed image of the score to memory, in order to visualize the piece. So what the heck is stored in the brain instead?
David Huron has a lecture (available on the web) where he asks the following yes/no question: &#8220;Does the word &#8216;but&#8217; occur in [...]]]></description>
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