[1] He also studied psychology at the Havana University[2] and musicology in the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) where he graduated in 1982.
Also in 1986, Alén received the prestigious Casa de Las Américas Prize on the musicology category for his book: Diagnosticar la musicalidad.
In this article, Alberto Alén applied his extensive knowledge of psychology and statistics to the traditional musical forms analysis.
The complex of stimulations that arrive to the retina (or to the Organ of Corti in the case of audition) generate, at a cortical level, – so affirms Pavlov- “functional systems that act integrally as in the case of an elemental conditioned reflex’, where all particular contents of different stimulations is transcended when reflecting their multiple reciprocal relationships, that are continuously exerting influence between each other (González, 1960: 72; Rubinstein, 1967:274).
[5] “Diagnosticar la Musicalidad, the latest of Alen's tomes, continues an in-depth study of practical musical phenomena that rivals the writings of the German composer and musicologist Paul Hindemith”[4]... states Eugene Chadbuorne in reference to this particular work from Alberto Alén.