Culture Modulates the Brain Response to Harmonic Violations: An EEG Study on Hierarchical Syntactic Structure in Music

We investigated the role of culture in processing hierarchical syntactic structures in music. We examined whether violation of non-local dependencies manifest in event related potentials (ERP) for Western and Iranian excerpts by recording EEG while participants passively listened to sequences of mod...

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Main Authors: Haleh Akrami, Sahar Moghimi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
EEG
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00591/full