ArticleNeuropsychologia2018
Early neural responses underlie advantages for consonance over dissonance.
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- This sounds important: Electrophysiological responses reveal a dedicated learning mechanism to process salient consonant sounds in human newborns.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Breaking (musical) boundaries by investigating brain dynamics of event segmentation during real-life music-listening.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Pleasantness makes a good time: musical consonance shapes interpersonal synchronization in dyadic joint action.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Neuromagnetic representation of musical roundness in chord progressions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Consonance Perception in Congenital Amusia: Behavioral and Brain Responses to Harmonicity and Beating Cues.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Memorisation and implicit perceptual learning are enhanced for preferred musical intervals and chords.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- Neural correlates of acoustic dissonance in music: The role of musicianship, schematic and veridical expectations.PloS one · 2021Article
- Aesthetic appreciation of musical intervals enhances behavioural and neurophysiological indexes of attentional engagement and motor inhibition.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Consonant musical intervals tend to be more readily processed than dissonant intervals. In the present study, we explore the neural basis for this difference by registering how the brain responds after changes in consonance and dissonance, and how formal musical training modulates these responses. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were registered while participants were presented with sequences of consonant intervals interrupted by a dissonant interval, or sequences of dissonant intervals interrupted by a consonant interval. Participants were musicians and non-musicians. Our results show that brain responses triggered by changes in a consonant context differ from those triggered in a dissonant context. Changes in a sequence of consonant intervals are rapidly processed independently of musical expertise, as revealed by a change-related mismatch negativity (MMN, a component of the ERPs triggered by an odd stimulus in a sequence of stimuli) elicited in both musicians and non-musicians. In contrast, changes in a sequence of dissonant intervals elicited a late MMN only in participants with prolonged musical training. These different neural responses might form the basis for the processing advantages observed for consonance over dissonance and provide information about how formal musical training modulates them.
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