Cortical Sensitivity to Guitar Note Patterns: EEG Entrainment to Repetition and Key.

ABSTRACT: Music is ubiquitous throughout recent human culture, and many individual's have an innate ability to appreciate and understand music. Our appreciation of music likely emerges from the brain's ability to process a series of repeated complex acoustic patterns. In order to understand these processes further, cortical responses were measured to a series of guitar notes presented with a musical pattern or without a pattern. ERP responses to individual notes were measured using a 24 electrode Bluetooth mobile EEG system (Smarting mBrainTrain) while 13 healthy non-musicians listened to structured (i.e., within musical keys and with repetition) or random sequences of guitar notes for 10 min each. We demonstrate an increased amplitude to the ERP that appears ~200 ms to notes presented within the mu

SUBMITTER: Bridwell DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5331856 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature