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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Music Psychology
  • Auditory Perception

Background:

  • Music emotion is fundamentally linked to tension.
  • Complex nested structures in music are crucial for conveying emotion.
  • Neural mechanisms of music tension processing in nested structures remain largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the subjective experience of musical tension induced by nested structures.
  • To explore the underlying neural mechanisms associated with processing nested musical structures.
  • To examine the relationship between cognitive processing and emotional responses to musical tension.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized electroencephalography (EEG) and a continuous tension rating task.
  • Participants included thirty musicians evaluating real-time tension in chorale sequences.
  • Sequences featured non-nested, singly nested, and doubly nested structures.

Main Results:

  • Nested structures induced more fluctuating tension experiences than non-nested ones, primarily during tension induction.
  • Larger late positive components (LPCs) were observed for nested structures, indicating greater cognitive integration of long-distance dependencies.
  • Doubly nested structures elicited LPCs with smaller scalp distribution, suggesting more complex processing.

Conclusions:

  • Musical structure significantly influences dynamic tension experience and processing.
  • A discrepancy exists between subjective tension resolution and neural responses, highlighting non-parallel emotion-cognition dynamics.
  • The findings offer new insights into the relationship between musical structure, nestedness, and perceived tension.