AUDITORY-COGNITIVE COMPENSATION IN THE MUSICAL PERCEPTION OF BLIND MUSICIANS

Résumé

This paper examines blind musicians' music perception and auditory-based musical cognition evolution. Auditory-cognitive compensation improves auditory processing and analytical listening without visual musical representation, according to the research. Musicology, music psychology, and cognitive science are used to examine how Braille notation affects musical structure perception and interpretation. Braille music requires sequential tactile reading and deep auditory imagery and internal auditory processes, unlike visually oriented staff notation. This learning environment promotes advanced audiation and auditory-intonational analysis. The results suggest that blind musicians' musical perception should not be viewed as a deficit model but as an alternative cognitive framework for musical cognition with improved auditory awareness, structural listening, and musical memory.