Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges, insights, and 
recommendations

Jacoby, Nori; Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth; Clayton, Martin; Hannon, Erin; Honing, Henkjan; Iversen, John; Klein, Tobias Robert; Mehr, Samuel A.; Pearson, Lara; Peretz, Isabelle; Perlman, Marc; Polak, Rainer; Ravignani, Andrea; Savage, Patrick E.; Steingo, Gavin; Stevens, Catherine J.; Trainor, Laurel; Trehub, Sandra; Veal, Michael; Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie

doi:10.1525/mp.2020.37.3.185

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Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges, insights, and recommendations

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Jacoby, Nori
Research Group Computational Auditory Perception, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society;

Pearson, Lara
Department of Music, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society;

Polak, Rainer
Department of Music, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society;

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Ravignani, Andrea
Vrije Universiteit Brussel;
Comparative Bioacoustics, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie
Department of Music, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society;

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Jacoby, N., Margulis, E. H., Clayton, M., Hannon, E., Honing, H., Iversen, J., et al. (2020). Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges, insights, and recommendations. Music Perception, 37(3), 185-195. doi:10.1525/mp.2020.37.3.185.

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Abstract

Many foundational questions in the psychology of music require cross-cultural approaches, yet the vast majority of work in the field to date has been conducted with Western participants and Western music. For cross-cultural research to thrive, it will require collaboration between people from different disciplinary backgrounds, as well as strategies for overcoming differences in assumptions, methods, and terminology. This position paper surveys the current state of the field and offers a number of concrete recommendations focused on issues involving ethics, empirical methods, and definitions of “music” and “culture.”