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Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries
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Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm in 39 participant groups in 15 countries, spanning urban societies and Indigenous populations. Listeners reproduced random ‘seed’ rhythms; their reproductions were fed back as the stimulus (as in the game of ‘telephone’), such that their biases (the prior) could be estimated from the distribution of reproduction...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1038/s41562-023-01800-9
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- Publisher:
- Nature Research
- Journal:
- Nature Human Behaviour More from this journal
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 846-877
- Publication date:
- 2024-03-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-12-07
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2397-3374
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English
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2003671
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2024-07-20
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