ArticleJournal of eye movement research2018
Pupillary dilation response reflects surprising moments in music.
Article in Journal of eye movement research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Fluctuations in arousal reflect latent state transitions that facilitate behavioural optimization.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Salient features of task-irrelevant continuous speech distort subjective time.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2026Article
- Increasing the complexity of isolated musical chords benefits concurrent associative memory formation.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The pupil near response is short lasting and intact in virtual reality head mounted displays.Journal of eye movement research · 2022Article
- Pupil Dilation and the Slow Wave ERP Reflect Surprise about Choice Outcome Resulting from Intrinsic Variability in Decision Confidence.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2021Article
- Pupillary response to moving stimuli of different speeds.Journal of eye movement research · 2021Article
- Mental Effort When Playing, Listening, and Imagining Music in One Pianist's Eyes and Brain.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- The application of eye-tracking in music research.Journal of eye movement research · 2019Article
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Abstract
There are indications that the pupillary dilation response (PDR) reflects surprising moments in an auditory sequence such as the appearance of a deviant noise against repetitively presented pure tones (4), and salient and loud sounds that are evaluated by human paricipants subjectively (12). In the current study, we further examined whether the reflection of PDR in auditory surprise can be accumulated and revealed in complex and yet structured auditory stimuli, i.e., music, and when the surprise is defined subjectively. Participants listened to 15 excerpts of music while their pupillary responses were recorded. In the surprise-rating session, participants rated how surprising an instance in the excerpt was, i.e., rich in variation versus monotonous, while they listened to it. In the passive-listening session, they listened to the same 15 excerpts again but were not involved in any task. The pupil diameter data obtained from both sessions were time-aligned to the rating data obtained from the surprise-rating session. Results showed that in both sessions, mean pupil diameter was larger at moments rated more surprising than unsurprising. The result suggests that the PDR reflects surprise in music automatically.
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