Informações sobre os cursos e outras actividades da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Católica Portuguesa em Viseu.
2004-05-28
Music and the abstract brain
By Per Aage Brandt
The beauty of music and the pleasure it gives us are both extremely pervasive across cultures and very difficult to explain. But there are reasons to believe that music and emotion are neurally interrelated through gesture and imaginary body schemas. Musical perception and performance may be at the origin of human language and symbolization; the esthetics of singing, playing and dancing creates symbolic meaning, which creates abstract thinking. The pleasure is preserved all the way 'up'. More...
Per Aage Brandt vai estar em Viseu no próximo dia 7 de Junho (às 11 horas na BJPS), onde irá falar sobre »A Cognitive View of Metaphor and Metonymy - Evidence from the Cognitive Poetics Research«.
The beauty of music and the pleasure it gives us are both extremely pervasive across cultures and very difficult to explain. But there are reasons to believe that music and emotion are neurally interrelated through gesture and imaginary body schemas. Musical perception and performance may be at the origin of human language and symbolization; the esthetics of singing, playing and dancing creates symbolic meaning, which creates abstract thinking. The pleasure is preserved all the way 'up'. More...
Per Aage Brandt vai estar em Viseu no próximo dia 7 de Junho (às 11 horas na BJPS), onde irá falar sobre »A Cognitive View of Metaphor and Metonymy - Evidence from the Cognitive Poetics Research«.
