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An Analytical Framework of Tonal and Rhythmic Hierarchy in Natural Music Using the Multivariate Temporal Response Function.

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Leahy, J; Kim, S-G; Wan, J; Overath, T
Published in: Frontiers in neuroscience
January 2021

Even without formal training, humans experience a wide range of emotions in response to changes in musical features, such as tonality and rhythm, during music listening. While many studies have investigated how isolated elements of tonal and rhythmic properties are processed in the human brain, it remains unclear whether these findings with such controlled stimuli are generalizable to complex stimuli in the real world. In the current study, we present an analytical framework of a linearized encoding analysis based on a set of music information retrieval features to investigate the rapid cortical encoding of tonal and rhythmic hierarchies in natural music. We applied this framework to a public domain EEG dataset (OpenMIIR) to deconvolve overlapping EEG responses to various musical features in continuous music. In particular, the proposed framework investigated the EEG encoding of the following features: tonal stability, key clarity, beat, and meter. This analysis revealed a differential spatiotemporal neural encoding of beat and meter, but not of tonal stability and key clarity. The results demonstrate that this framework can uncover associations of ongoing brain activity with relevant musical features, which could be further extended to other relevant measures such as time-resolved emotional responses in future studies.

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Frontiers in neuroscience

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1662-453X

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1662-4548

Publication Date

January 2021

Volume

15

Start / End Page

665767

Related Subject Headings

  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3209 Neurosciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
  • 1109 Neurosciences
 

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Leahy, J., Kim, S.-G., Wan, J., & Overath, T. (2021). An Analytical Framework of Tonal and Rhythmic Hierarchy in Natural Music Using the Multivariate Temporal Response Function. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 665767. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.665767
Leahy, Jasmine, Seung-Goo Kim, Jie Wan, and Tobias Overath. “An Analytical Framework of Tonal and Rhythmic Hierarchy in Natural Music Using the Multivariate Temporal Response Function.Frontiers in Neuroscience 15 (January 2021): 665767. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.665767.
Leahy J, Kim S-G, Wan J, Overath T. An Analytical Framework of Tonal and Rhythmic Hierarchy in Natural Music Using the Multivariate Temporal Response Function. Frontiers in neuroscience. 2021 Jan;15:665767.
Leahy, Jasmine, et al. “An Analytical Framework of Tonal and Rhythmic Hierarchy in Natural Music Using the Multivariate Temporal Response Function.Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 15, Jan. 2021, p. 665767. Epmc, doi:10.3389/fnins.2021.665767.
Leahy J, Kim S-G, Wan J, Overath T. An Analytical Framework of Tonal and Rhythmic Hierarchy in Natural Music Using the Multivariate Temporal Response Function. Frontiers in neuroscience. 2021 Jan;15:665767.

Published In

Frontiers in neuroscience

DOI

EISSN

1662-453X

ISSN

1662-4548

Publication Date

January 2021

Volume

15

Start / End Page

665767

Related Subject Headings

  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3209 Neurosciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
  • 1109 Neurosciences