Accurate Decoding of Imagined and Heard Melodies.

ABSTRACT: Music perception requires the human brain to process a variety of acoustic and music-related properties. Recent research used encoding models to tease apart and study the various cortical contributors to music perception. To do so, such approaches study temporal response functions that summarise the neural activity over several minutes of data. Here we tested the possibility of assessing the neural processing of individual musical units (bars) with electroencephalography (EEG). We devised a decoding methodology based on a maximum correlation metric across EEG segments (maxCorr) and used it to decode melodies from EEG based on an experiment where professional musicians listened and imagined four Bach melodies multiple times. We demonstrate here that accurate decoding of melodies in s

SUBMITTER: Di Liberto GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8375770 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature