Os processos das abstrações mentais na construção do conhecimento musical a partir de Piaget: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

Musical cognition is a field of studies that has been gradually attracting the attention of researchers from the musical education field. The understanding of the cognitive processes has become more and more relevant for the comprehension of how musical knowledge is acquired. This essay aimed to expand those notions, basing itself on an aspect of the cognitive processes described by the epistemologist and biologist Jean Piaget. This aspect is the mental abstractions, which are divided as empirical, pseudo-empirical, and reflexive abstraction. Together, these abstractions act directly towards the construction of one’s logical mathematical thinking. In order to expand the previously mentioned notions, an integrative review was made. This review aimed to understand the state of the art of the research that correlates knowledge, musical practice and Piagetian theories. The researcher selected works that found evidence concerning the relationships between the aforementioned abstractions and the mental cognition that happens during musical practice. They comprised 60 studies; and among those,12 studies that brought proof based on evidences were selected for further investigation, those that pointed towards a strict relationship between the aforementioned mental abstractions described by Piaget and musical activity in multiple aspects.