Laurel-Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not.

ABSTRACT: Some spoken phrases, when heard repeatedly, seem to transform into music, in a classic finding known as the speech-to-song illusion. Repeated listening to musical phrases can also lead to changes in liking, attributed to learning-related reduction of prediction errors generated by the dopaminergic reward system. Does repeating spoken phrases also result in changes in liking? Here we tested whether repeated presentation of spoken phrases can lead to changes in liking as well as in musicality, and whether these changes might vary with musical reward sensitivity. We also asked whether perceptual biases towards low versus high frequencies, as assessed using the Laurel/Yanny illusion, are linked to changes in musicality and liking with repetition. Results show a general reduction in liking for

SUBMITTER: Kathios N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12365028 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature