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Music Recognition of the Human Brain through Note Melody and Chord Harmony - Based on the Results of Event-Related Potentials (ERP) Experiments -

Nam Jung Woo 1 Wonil Chung 2 Park, Myung Kwan 2 Cho, Euiyon 2

1순천향대학교
2동국대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The music we listen to everyday contains a formal element that makes a sound stream musical or nonmusical. While recognizing such a formal arrangement of music we can get a musical emotional feeing out of it. But the musical feeling of a sound stream has long been regarded as a result from undergoing a listener's tension-resolution which is attributed to the melodic and harmonic cadent process pattern of the sound stream. Assuming that the point of the resolution, the musical cadence, complies with the resolution pattern, and that the feeling of musical resolution occurs in the listener's brain, we can shed some lights on what the musical cognition is by observing the brain responses at such a point of musical resolution. Using event-related potentials (ERP) experiments we probed into the syntactic formality of music in order to compare it with the syntactic formality of language. In our study we manipulated musical notes and chords, and collected the ERP data of the neural responses to them to ascertain how the musical cognition is characterized.

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