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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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10.1038/s41562-023-01800-9

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Nature Research
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Volume:
8
Issue:
5
Pages:
846-877
Publication date:
2024-03-04
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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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