Abstract
As an interdisciplinary research field, music perception involves various disciplines, such as neuroscience, psychology, and even physics. As research on music perception offers us a window into the mechanism of the brain, this study examined Chinese nonmusicians' electroencephalogram α-band activity elicited by tempo variation. This study is the first to demonstrate electrophysiological evidence for the tempo-specific timing hypothesis by showing significant changes in the α-band spectral power during tempo perception. Furthermore, results showed that a larger tempo transformation gave rise to a greater change in α-band spectral power than a smaller tempo transformation.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 125-128 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | NeuroReport |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Feb 2012 |