Music cognition - Ongakuninchi (English spelling) music cognition

Japanese: 音楽認知 - おんがくにんち（英語表記）music cognition

In a broad sense, it refers to all human activities related to listening to and creating music, such as listening to and understanding (interpretation and appreciation), playing and singing, composing and improvising, and research on these activities, and more specifically, it refers to those aspects related to listening and understanding. Music cognition is considered important because music is a universal human activity, regardless of society or culture, and because it is considered a basic cognitive branch on a par with other cognitive abilities such as language, mathematics and logic, spatial cognition, and motor control. Music cognition has both its own uniqueness as music cognition and its character as part of a more universal cognitive ability, and these are intricately intertwined in practice and in research.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

広い意味では音楽の聴取･理解(解釈･鑑賞)，演奏･歌唱，作曲･即興など，音楽の聴取･創作に関わる人間活動全般およびそれに関する研究を，より限定的にはそのうち聴取･理解に関わる側面を指す。　音楽認知が重要と目されるのは，音楽が人間の活動として社会･文化を問わず，普遍的に存在すること，音楽認知が言語，数理･論理，空間認知，運動制御など他の認知能力と並ぶ基本的な認知部門ととらえられることによる。そこには音楽認知としての独自性と，より普遍的な認知能力の一環としての性格の両面があり，それが実際にも研究の上でも複雑に絡み合っている。

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