Learning Harmony: The Role of Serial Statistics  

Oleh:

Jonaitis, Erin McMullen ; SAFFRAN, JENNY R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cognitive Science vol. 33 no. 5 (Jul. 2009), page 951–968.
Topik: Learning; Music; Syntax; Language acquisition
Fulltext: 10. Learning Harmony - The Role of Serial Statistics.pdf (287.65KB)

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How do listeners learn about the statistical regularities underlying musical harmony? In traditional Western music, certain chords predict the occurrence of other chords: Given a particular chord, not all chords are equally likely to follow. In Experiments 1 and 2, we investigated whether adults make use of statistical information when learning new musical structures. Listeners were exposed to a novel musical system containing phrases generated using an artificial grammar. This new system contained statistical structure quite different from Western tonal music. Our results suggest that learners take advantage of the statistical patterning of chords to acquire new musical structures, similar to learning processes previously observed for language learning.

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