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Similarity and Repetition
Author(s) -
Neuhaus Christiane,
Knösche Thomas R.,
Friederici Angela D.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04791.x
Subject(s) - phrase , negativity effect , similarity (geometry) , communication , speech recognition , psychology , motif (music) , perception , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , repetition (rhetorical device) , context (archaeology) , computer science , cognitive psychology , linguistics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , biology , neuroscience , art , philosophy , paleontology , aesthetics , statistics , image (mathematics)
In this ERP study we investigate how consecutive phrase patterns in the musical form types AABB and ABAB are conjoined perceptually. An anterior N300 reflects recognition of motif similarity in adjacent (A‐A) and nonadjacent (A‐B‐A) phrase patterns, indicating perceptual coherence between (similar) parts in linear order. A marginally significant late anterior negativity reflects the processing of the second B in ABAB. It probably reveals some global aspects of “structural integration” when nonadjacent parts are perceived in the context of the whole melody.