Is beat induction innate or learned? Probing emergent meter perception in adults and newborns using event-related brain potentials

Authors
Publication date 2009
Journal Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Event The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and plasticity (Neuromusic III), Montreal, Canada
Volume | Issue number 1169
Pages (from-to) 93-96
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Meter is considered an important structuring mechanism in the perception and experience of rhythm in music. Combining behavioral and electrophysiological measures, in the present study we investigate whether meter is more likely a learned phenomenon, possibly a result of musical expertise, or whether sensitivity to meter is also active in adult nonmusicians and newborn infants. The results provide evidence that meter induction is active in adult nonmusicians and that beat induction is already functional right after birth.
Document type Article
Note Proceedings title: The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and plasticity Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences Place of publication: New York
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04761.x
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