Influence of regular rhythmic versus textural sound sequences on semantic and conceptual processing

Laure-Hélène Canette , Philippe Lalitte , Barbara Tillmann (1) , Emmanuel Bigand

1 CRNL - Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center

Conceptual priming studies have shown that listening to musical primes triggers semantic activation. The present study further investigated with a free semantic evocation task (1) how rhythmic vs. textural structures affect the amount of words evoked after a musical sequence and (2) whether both features also affect the content of the semantic activation. Rhythmic

Domaines: Psychologie

Laure-Hélène Canette, Philippe Lalitte, Barbara Tillmann, Emmanuel Bigand. Influence of regular rhythmic versus textural sound sequences on semantic and conceptual processing. Music Perception, In press. ⟨hal-03384384⟩