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SUBMITTER: Loui P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2779050 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20090101 2
Surviving in a complex and changeable environment relies on the ability to extract probable recurring patterns. Here we report a neurophysiological mechanism for rapid probabilistic learning of a new system of music. Participants listened to different combinations of tones from a previously unheard system of pitches based on the Bohlen-Pierce scale, with chord progressions that form 3:1 ratios in frequency, notably different from 2:1 frequency ratios in existing musical systems. Event-related br ...[more]