This course offers an introduction to music cognition, a research field that embraces perspectives and methodologies from music theory, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and related disciplines. Representative topics include: music and social bonding, perception and cognition of pitch and timbre, musical expectancy, meter and entrainment, embodied cognition, relationship between music and language, music and emotion, and cross-cultural work in music cognition. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to critically appraise published studies involving behavioral experiments and large music corpora, interpret data presented in such studies, design an empirical study of their own, and extrapolate ideas for future research. Course requirements include weekly reading responses and a semester-long research project on a topic of the student’s choosing.