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New PhD project from Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University investigates how the brain reacts to surprise by means of musical sounds.
06.12.2019 |
| Dato | fre 13 dec |
| Tid | 11:00 — 14:00 |
| Sted | Merete Barker Auditorium 1253-211, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C |
When listening to music, we constantly make predictions about the sounds that will follow. These predictions are often violated by the actual sounds, thereby giving rise to auditory surprise, which in turn generates brain responses, draws the listener's attention and elicits emotion. In the current PhD research, the neural responses to surprise of different kinds were investigated in musicians and non-musicians, using musical stimuli that are more complex and realistic than those typically studied in neurophysiological research.
The results revealed that the complexity or predictability of musical stimuli strongly affects the brain's responses to suprising sounds, an effect that can be observed in both musicians and non-musicians. Furthermore, a computational model suggested that the brain keeps track of musical predictions with different levels of abstraction, going from the sensory properties of the sounds to the culture-specific knowledge of musical styles. The novel methods developed can be used to study auditory perception and learning in both healthy and clinical populations, with complex and realistic musical stimuli
The defence is public and takes place on 13/12-2019 at 11:00 in Auditorium 1253-211 (Merete Barker), Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C. The title of the project is "the neural responses to auditory surprise in complex and realistic musical contexts". For more information, please contact PhD student David Ricardo Quiroga Martinez, email: dquiroga@clin.au.dk, Phone +45 52526481.
After the defense, MIB hosts a reception in Building 1A, Nørrebrogade 44.