What is the paper about?
The paper is an experiment that is designed to find out where exactly does the brain process the elements of music—specifically how it ‘expects’ a certain tone after hearing a previous harmony. It is assumed that music follows a certain syntax like language, where its ‘rightness’ is dictated by a certain set of rules. In order to do this, they used magnetoencephalography in mapping the part of the brain the is most active in hearing music. In the experiment, it was found out that the Broca’s area in the brain is not only responsible for determining the ...
