Early neural responses underlie advantages for consonance over dissonance.

ABSTRACT: Consonant musical intervals tend to be more readily processed than dissonant intervals. In the present study, we explore the neural basis for this difference by registering how the brain responds after changes in consonance and dissonance, and how formal musical training modulates these responses. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were registered while participants were presented with sequences of consonant intervals interrupted by a dissonant interval, or sequences of dissonant intervals interrupted by a consonant interval. Participants were musicians and non-musicians. Our results show that brain responses triggered by changes in a consonant context differ from those triggered in a dissonant context. Changes in a sequence of consonant intervals are rapidly processed independently of

SUBMITTER: Crespo-Bojorque P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6092559 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature