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The Neural Mechanisms Of Musical Rhythm Processing: Cross-Cultural Differences And The Stages Of Beat Perception, Daniel J. Cameron
The Neural Mechanisms Of Musical Rhythm Processing: Cross-Cultural Differences And The Stages Of Beat Perception, Daniel J. Cameron
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Music is a universal human behaviour, is fundamentally temporal, and has unique temporal properties. This thesis presents research on the cognitive neuroscience of the temporal aspects of music: rhythm, beat, and metre. Specifically, this work investigates how cultural experience influences behavioural and neural measures of rhythm processing, and the different neural mechanisms (with particular interest in the role of the striatum) that underlie different stages of beat perception, as musical rhythms unfold.
Chapter 1 presents an overview of the existing literature on the perceptual, cognitive, and neural processing of rhythm, including the entrainment of neural oscillations to rhythm and the …