Studying Musical Savants: A Commentary on Grundy and Ockelford

On the basis of the "zygonic" theory of musical understanding (Ockelford, 2006), Grundy and Ockelford (2014) investigated musical expectations evoked during the course of hearing a piece for the first time in a prodigious musical savant (Derek Paravicini). Overall, the results provided by...

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Main Author: Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2015-01-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v9i2.4030