Expectation adaptation for rare cadences in music: Item order matters in repetition priming.

ABSTRACT: Humans make predictions about future events in many domains, including when they listen to music. Previous accounts of harmonic expectation in music have emphasised the role of implicit musical knowledge acquired in the long term through the mechanism of statistical learning. However, it is not known whether listeners can adapt their expectations for unusual harmonies in the short term through repetition priming, and whether the extent of any short-term adaptation depends on the unfolding statistical structure of the music. To explore these possibilities, we presented 150 participants with phrases from Bach chorales that ended with a cadence that was either a priori likely or unlikely based on the long-term statistical structure of the corpus of chorales. While holding the 50-50 incidence

SUBMITTER: Chander A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10501749 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature