Language influences music harmony perception: effects of shared syntactic integration resources beyond attention.

ABSTRACT: Many studies have revealed shared music-language processing resources by finding an influence of music harmony manipulations on concurrent language processing. However, the nature of the shared resources has remained ambiguous. They have been argued to be syntax specific and thus due to shared syntactic integration resources. An alternative view regards them as related to general attention and, thus, not specific to syntax. The present experiments evaluated these accounts by investigating the influence of language on music. Participants were asked to provide closure judgements on harmonic sequences in order to assess the appropriateness of sequence endings. At the same time participants read syntactic garden-path sentences. Closure judgements revealed a change in harmonic processing as the

SUBMITTER: Kunert R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4785990 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature