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Expertise in folk music alters the brain processing of Western harmony
Author(s) -
Tervaniemi M.,
Tupala T.,
Brattico E.
Publication year - 2012
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.1749-6632.2011.06428.x
Subject(s) - chord (peer to peer) , harmony (color) , western music , psychology , musical , music theory , cognitive psychology , communication , aesthetics , cognitive science , art , visual arts , computer science , distributed computing
In various paradigms of modern neurosciences of music, experts of Western classical music have displayed superior brain architecture when compared with individuals without explicit training in music. In this paper, we show that chord violations embedded in musical cadences were neurally processed in a facilitated manner also by musicians trained in Finnish folk music. This result, obtained by using early right anterior negativity (ERAN) as an index of harmony processing, suggests that tonal processing is advanced in folk musicians by their long‐term exposure to both Western and non‐Western music.