MUS COGS 20 Exploring the Musical Mind UCSD

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Exploring the Musical Mind, co-listed in the Music and Cognitive Science departments at UC San Diego, offered in Summer Session II 2025, is instructed by Jingwei Liu, a Ph.D. candidate in the Music Department, who serves as an Associate Instructor at UCSD 2024-2025. This course's wide-ranging content includes reflection on the essence of music, the musical minds of composers and listeners, musical expectations and surprise, musical knowledge construction regarding language, embodiment, enactivism, biosemiotics, etc. For cognitive science, attention, expectation, predictive processing, action-perception loops, and Gestalt theories will be covered from musical perspectives. This course will be quite intellectual. The materials are in line with the instructor's dissertation, the Artificial Musical Minds, on the Free Energy Principle and the Helmholtz machine. Musical expectations, surprise, and informational aesthetic measures also constitute important parts of the instructor's research.