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  • Music Psychology
  • Computational Auditory Neuroscience

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  • Aesthetic preference is linked to learning and creativity.
  • Previous research separately studied novelty perception and creative generation.
  • The relationship between perceiving and generating novelty in music remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the link between pleasantness judgments, brain responses to musical note probability, and learning/creativity.
  • Examine how auditory expectation influences aesthetic preference in music.
  • Understand the neural correlates of novelty perception and generation in music.

Main Methods:

  • Trained 40 non-musicians on an artificial music grammar.
  • Recorded electroencephalography (EEG) during pleasantness judgments of musical notes varying in probability.
  • Assessed participants' musical compositions for creativity after training.

Main Results:

  • An inverted U-shaped relationship was found between note probability and pleasantness.
  • Intermediate probability notes elicited larger N100 and P200 brain responses, indicating prediction error.
  • Highly creative individuals preferred intermediate probability notes; less creative individuals preferred higher probability notes.

Conclusions:

  • Aesthetic preference for musical novelty is linked to an inverted U-shaped response to note probability.
  • Higher creativity in music composition correlates with a preference for intermediate probability notes.
  • Brain responses to note probability appear independent of higher-level learning and creativity processes.