The Music of Silence: Part II: Music Listening Induces Imagery Responses.

ABSTRACT: During music listening, humans routinely acquire the regularities of the acoustic sequences and use them to anticipate and interpret the ongoing melody. Specifically, in line with this predictive framework, it is thought that brain responses during such listening reflect a comparison between the bottom-up sensory responses and top-down prediction signals generated by an internal model that embodies the music exposure and expectations of the listener. To attain a clear view of these predictive responses, previous work has eliminated the sensory inputs by inserting artificial silences (or sound omissions) that leave behind only the corresponding predictions of the thwarted expectations. Here, we demonstrate a new alternate approach in which we decode the predictive electroencephalography (EE

SUBMITTER: Di Liberto GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8412992 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature