Effect of a Bass Voice Melody on Syntactic Processing of Music

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  • 音楽の統語処理に及ぼすバス旋律の効果
  • オンガク ノ トウゴ ショリ ニ オヨボス バス センリツ ノ コウカ

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<p>The early right anterior negativity (ERAN) is an event-related potential occurring when a chord in Western tonal music deviates from the tonal context, which is considered to reflect syntactic processing of music. A recent study reported that the ERAN was enhanced when pitch deviance occurred in a part of the main melody, rather than other parts. However, it remains unclear whether this effect was caused by deviance in the main melody or the treble voice because only a soprano voice was used as the main melody. We used a bass melody in the current study and compared the ERAN amplitudes between bass-deviant and soprano-deviant chords. The results indicated that a larger ERAN was elicited by a chord with soprano-voice deviance than a chord with bass-voice deviance, suggesting that in syntactic processing of music, the treble voice effect is dominant than the melody effect.</p>

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