Processing of hierarchical syntactic structure in music

Hierarchical structure with nested nonlocal dependencies is a key feature of human language and can be identified theoretically in most pieces of tonal music. However, previous studies have argued against the perception of such structures in music. Here, we show processing of nonlocal dependencies i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rohrmeier, Martin Alois, Koelsch, Stefan, Torrecuso, Renzo, Jentschke, Sebastian
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87994