Music is an important domain of application for schema theory. The perceptual
structures for pitch and timbre have been mapped via schemata, with results that
have contributed to a better understanding of music perception. Yet we still
need to know how a schema comes into existence, or how it functions in a
particular perception task. This book provides a foundation for the
understanding of the emergence and functionality of schemata by means of
computer-based simulations of tone center perception. It is about how memory
structures self-organize and how they use contextual information to guide
perception.