Overview of Unit 2

Concepts and Methods from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence

• Representations: symbolic, hierarchical
• Rules and rule-based processing
• Experimental method
• Designing an experiment (Activity 5)

Meter and Rhythm in Music (and Language?)

• High-level description of musical meter
• Some experiments on meter assignment
• A rule-based model of meter assignment (Activity 6)
• An alternative oscillator model of meter assignment
• (Stress systems in language)

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