From Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Learning from Reward

will present the talk titled

Predictability and Liking in Rhythm Production

Abstract

Music is one of the activities people usually report as pleasurable. It is thought that this pleasantness is due to the explotation of predictive mechanisms. However, predictability and liking has usually been studied in the context of listening. In this new project, we would explore how predictability measures and self-reported liking are linked while producing rhythms. To do so, first we will build some rhythms that include metrical context and a production part that will have different complexity degrees as indexed by syncopation – a metrical disruption that is understood as a incongruency between what it is expected by our internally generated model and the actual sounds- and information content given by the IDyOM model – a measure that is related to the prediction error in the Predictive Coding Framework. In this presentation, I will present the stimuli and paradigm that will be used in our new project.

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