Aesthetic judgments of music in experts and laypersons--an ERP study.

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Aesthetic judgments of music in experts and laypersons--an ERP study.

Thomas Jacobsen Elvira Brattico Elvira Brattico Mira Müller Lea Höfel

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Male Correctness EXPECTANCY 0302 clinical medicine Professional Competence Preferences EEG BRAIN Judgment processes Evaluation Pitch Perception media_common Brain Mapping General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Cognition Electroencephalography Contingent negative variation EMOTIONS Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Aesthetic value Evoked Potentials Auditory Music perception Female Cues Psychology Social psychology ERP Adult AUDITORY-EVOKED POTENTIALS media_common.quotation_subject Aesthetics Contingent Negative Variation Expertise 050105 experimental psychology BIOELECTRICAL ECHOES 03 medical and health sciences Judgment ENHANCEMENT Event-related potential Physiology (medical)Chord sequence Reaction Time Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Music aesthetics APPRAISAL CONTINGENT NEGATIVE-VARIATION Analysis of Variance PICTURES Acoustic Stimulation Beauty Chord (music)030217 neurology & neurosurgery Music RESPONSES

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We investigated whether music experts and laypersons differ with regard to aesthetic evaluation of musical sequences 16 music experts and 16 music laypersons judged the aesthetic value (beauty judgment task) as well as the harmonic correctness (correctness judgment task) of chord sequences The sequences consisted of five chords with the final chord sounding congruous, ambiguous or incongruous relative to the harmonic context established by the preceding four chords On behavioural measures, few differences were observed between experts and laypersons However, several differences in event-related potential (ERP) parameters were observed in auditory, cognitive and aesthetic processing of chord cadences between experts and laypersons First, established ERP effects known to reflect the processing of harmonic rule violation were investigated. Here, differences between the groups were observed in the processing of the mild violation experts and laypersons differed in their early brain responses to the beginning of the chord sequence. Furthermore, ERP data indicated distinctions between experts and laypersons in aesthetic evaluation at three different stages Firstly, during the interval of task-cue presentation, a stronger contingent negative variation (CNV) to the beauty judgment task was observed for experts, indicating that experts invest more effort into preparation for aesthetic processes than into correctness judgments Secondly, during the first four chords, preparation for the correctness judgment required more exertion on the laypersons' side. Thirdly, during the last chord, laypersons showed a larger late and widespread positivity for the beauty compared to the correctness judgment, indicating a stronger reliance on internal affective states while forming a judgment (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved

year	journal	country	edition	language
2010-04-01	International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology

10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.02.002 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20153786