This course offers an introduction to music perception and cognition, a diverse field that embraces perspectives from music theory, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and related disciplines. Representative topics include: music and social bonding, perception of musical tones, memory for pitch and timbre, tonality and expectation, meter and movement, music and language, and emotion. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to understand and critique the design of behavioral experiments, interpret data presented in experimental studies, and extrapolate ideas for future studies. Course requirements include weekly reading summaries and a semester-long research project on a topic of the student's choosing.