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Music matters: Preattentive musicality of the human brain

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Koelsch,  Stefan
MPI of Cognitive Neuroscience (Leipzig, -2003), The Prior Institutes, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Gunter,  Thomas C.
MPI of Cognitive Neuroscience (Leipzig, -2003), The Prior Institutes, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Koelsch, S., Schröger, E., & Gunter, T. C. (2002). Music matters: Preattentive musicality of the human brain. Psychophysiology, 39(1), 38-48. doi:10.1017/S0048577202000185.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-C96E-D
Abstract
During listening to a musical piece, unexpected harmonies may evoke brain responses that are reflected electrically as an early right anterior negativity (ERAN) and a late frontal negativity (N5). In the present study we demonstrate that these components of the event-related potential can be evoked preattentively, that is, even when a musical stimulus is ignored. Both ERAN and N5 differed in amplitude as a function of music-theoretical principles. Participants had no special musical expertise; results thus provide evidence for an automatic processing of musical information in onmusicians."