Bailes, F orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3579, Dean, RT and Pearce, MT (2013) Music cognition as mental time travel. Scientific Reports, 3. 2690. ISSN 2045-2322
Abstract
As we experience a temporal flux of events our expectations of future events change. Such expectations seem to be central to our perception of affect in music, but we have little understanding of how expectations change as recent information is integrated. When music establishes a pitch centre (tonality), we rapidly learn to anticipate its continuation. What happens when anticipations are challenged by new events? Here we show that providing a melodic challenge to an established tonality leads to progressive changes in the impact of the features of the stimulus on listeners' expectations. The results demonstrate that retrospective analysis of recent events can establish new patterns of expectation that converge towards probabilistic interpretations of the temporal stream. These studies point to wider applications of understanding the impact of information flow on future prediction and its behavioural utility.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2013, The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2016 15:07 |
Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2019 14:02 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.1038/srep02690 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Identification Number: | 10.1038/srep02690 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:90309 |
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