Is beat induction innate or learned? Probing emergent meter perception in adults and newborns using event-related brain potentials.
Meter is considered an important structuring mechanism in the perception and experience of rhythm in music. Combining behavioral and electrophysiological measures, in the present study we investigate whether meter is more likely a learned phenomenon, possibly a result of musical expertise, or whether sensitivity to meter is also active in adult nonmusicians and newborn infants. The results provide evidence that meter induction is active in adult nonmusicians and that beat induction is already functional right after birth.
Honing
Henkjan
H
Institute for Logic, Language & Computation and Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. honing@uva.nl
Ladinig
Olivia
O
Háden
Gábor P
GP
Winkler
István
I
D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009146:Music; D010507:Periodicity