Effects of unexpected chords and of performer's expression on brain responses and electrodermal activity. PLoS ONE 3, e2631 (2008). Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Steinbeis, N., Koelsch, S. & Sloboda, J. A. The role of harmonic expectancy violations in musical emotions:...
Unlike letters in text, pitches can be stacked, indicating simultaneous performance (chords). Music also uses a system of symbols to indicate how pitches should be played. Symbols can indicate duration (rhythm), volume (dynamics) and other performance cues. Music also utilizes written words to in...
Western-music tonality system) at certain points. The subjects either solely listen to the deviant sequence or select from provided chords to make the music more consonant (
We composed a musical excerpt in C-major consisting of a melody and accompanying fundamental chords. This original musical excerpt was systematically varied in terms of tuning (in-tune, out-of-tune) and tempo (fast, slow), resulting in four different musical background stimuli (Figure 1). ...
chords, environmental sounds, tone contours and com- plex tones. Sidtis and Volpe'° studied 28 patients who had suf- fered unilateral stroke. Those with right-side brain dam- age had severely impaired discrimination of complex tones, but this discrimination was completely unaffected in those wit...
We composed a musical excerpt in C-major consisting of a melody and accompanying fundamental chords. This original musical excerpt was systematically varied in terms of tuning (in-tune, out-of-tune) and tempo (fast, slow), resulting in four different musical background stimuli (Figure 1). ...
s most popular live sing-alongs -- is less chuggy, relying on sustained chords and melodic vocals. But melody never mars the heaviness of “Creeping Death,” which featured some excellent lead guitar from Hammett and the timeless metal chant, “Die, Die, Die, Die.” So let it be ...
s most popular live sing-alongs -- is less chuggy, relying on sustained chords and melodic vocals. But melody never mars the heaviness of “Creeping Death,” which featured some excellent lead guitar from Hammett and the timeless metal chant, “Die, Die, Die, Die.” So let it be ...
The subjects either solely listen to the deviant sequence or select from provided chords to make the music more consonant (consonant music: the combination of tones that is musically pleasing and melo- dious). Using this paradigm, EEG data show error-related signal potentials when listeners ...