Preferred music listening is associated with perceptual learning enhancement at the expense of self-focused attention.

ABSTRACT: Can preferred music listening improve following attentional and learning performances? Here we suggest that this may be the case. In Experiment 1, following preferred and non-preferred musical-piece listening, we recorded electrophysiological responses to an auditory roving-paradigm. We computed the mismatch negativity (MMN - the difference between responses to novel and repeated stimulation), as an index of perceptual learning, and we measured the correlation between trial-by-trial EEG responses and the fluctuations in Bayesian Surprise, as a quantification of the neural attunement with stimulus informational value. Furthermore, during music listening, we recorded oscillatory cortical activity. MMN and trial-by-trial correlation with Bayesian surprise were significantly larger after subje

SUBMITTER: Sarasso P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9722857 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature