Detection of changes in patterns of brain activity according to musical tonality

Tom Diethe; Simon Durrant; John Shawe-Taylor; Heinrich Neubauer

Detection of changes in patterns of brain activity according to musical tonality

Tom Diethe^*, Simon Durrant, John Shawe-Taylor, Heinrich Neubauer

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A common structural element of Western tonal music is the change of key within a melodic sequence. The present paper examines data from a set of experiments that were conducted to analyse human perception of different modulations of key. EEG recordings were taken of participants who were given melodic sequences containing changes in key of varying distances, as well as atonal sequences, with a behavioural task of identifying the change in key. Analysis of EEG involved derivation of 122120 separate dependent variables (features), including measures such as inter-electrode spectral power, coherence, and phase. The paper presents a novel method of performing semantic dimension reduction that produces a representation enabling high accuracy identification of out-of-subject tonal verses atonal sequences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, AIA 2009
Pages	12-17
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, AIA 2009 - Innsbruck, Austria Duration: 16 Feb 2009 → 18 Feb 2009

Conference

Conference	IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, AIA 2009
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Innsbruck
Period	16/02/09 → 18/02/09

Structured keywords

Digital Health
SPHERE

Keywords

EEG
KCCA
Machine learning
Music
Tonality

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Diethe, T, Durrant, S, Shawe-Taylor, J & Neubauer, H 2009, Detection of changes in patterns of brain activity according to musical tonality. in Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, AIA 2009. pp. 12-17, IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, AIA 2009, Innsbruck, Austria, 16/02/09.

Detection of changes in patterns of brain activity according to musical tonality. / Diethe, Tom; Durrant, Simon; Shawe-Taylor, John; Neubauer, Heinrich.

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, AIA 2009. 2009. p. 12-17.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

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Detection of changes in patterns of brain activity according to musical tonality

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