Category: ERC-C
Musical syntactic structure improves memory for melody
When we hear a linguistic sentence, we know that we form a mental representation of the structure of that sentence because we can determine what words refer to what other words. Do listeners form a mental representation of musical structure during listening? Answering this question is challenging because, differently from the linguistic case, it is (…)
Hierarchical syntactic structure predicts listeners’ sequence completion in music
Studies in psycho-linguistics have provided compelling evidence that theoretical syntactic structures have cognitive correlates that inform and influence language perception. Generative grammar models also present a principled way to represent a plethora of hierarchical structures outside the domain of language. Hierarchical aspects of musical structure, in particular, are often described through grammar models. Whether such (…)