By testing only Western musicians, it controls for enculturation, allowing a focused examination of cognitive mechanisms.

The findings also revealed a transfer effect of memory capacity and perceptual chunking on rhythm perception, showing that these strategies influence rhythmic discrimination accuracy for long rhythmic cycles.

The findings suggest that longer duration (beyond 5 seconds) and unfamiliar (non-isochronous) rhythmic structure challenge listeners' processing of these rhythmic cycles, providing critical insights into the cognitive processing of long, complex rhythmic patterns.

The paper uses rhythmic cycles from North Indian Classical Music, as their length exceeds the 2-3 second working memory window, and are structurally different from rhythms in Western music. I investigated the impact of cycle duration, number of beats and structure on rhythm discrimination accuracy.

Published my latest paper in the Routledge Open Research Journal, with transparent peer review and published all article versions. Felt a bit strange without an Action Editor, but I appreciated being able to track the process and see the open reviews.
routledgeopenresearch.org/articles/4-9...

Thanks.

⏱️ Effect of Length: Across all groups, shorter rhythmic patterns were recognized more accurately than longer ones.

🎵 Effect of General Musicianship: Western musicians generally performed better than Western non-musicians in recognizing rhythmic cycles.
🌍 Effect of Familiarity: Indian non-musicians were able to learn and recall the 7-, 8-, and 10-beat cycles, outperforming culturally unfamiliar non-musicians.

💡 Key findings:
- Indian non-musicians and Western musicians recognized the shorter rhythms after exposure, while Western non-musicians showed no learning for any of the rhythmic patterns.

Participants were asked to recognize rhythms before and after an explicit exposure.

We explored how cultural familiarity and musical training shape the ability to learn and recognize rhythm pattern across four rhythms: 7-beat Rupaktal, 8-beat Kehervatal, 10-beat Jhaptal, and 16-beat Teental. Participants were asked to recognize rhythms before and after an explicit exposure.

The Effect of Rhythm Cycle Length, Cultural Familiarity, and Musicianship on Learning and Recall of North Indian Rhythmic Patterns The study explores the effect of the length of rhythmic cycles, familiarity, musicianship, and rhythmic structure on the perception of long rhythmic cycles of North Indian Classical Music (NICM). W...

Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Happy to be a part of this cross-cultural research on the perception of tension in harmonic intervals. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Participating in #ICMPC18 online and watching the winning papers of the conference by @harinlee.info and Lalit Mohan. Both making some great contributions to #musicscience #musicpsychology and moving beyond WEIRD.

MUSIFEAST-17: MUsic Stimuli for imagination, familiarity, emotion, and Aesthetic STudies across 17 genres - Behavior Research Methods Musical stimuli are commonly used in psychological research for investigating a range of emotional, cognitive, and physiological processes. Despite this widespread use, many studies continue to rely o...

MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set now published and available to read!
link.springer.com/article/10.3... 🧞‍♀️🚀 #MusicPsych #MusicScience

Had a great time presenting my work on chunking and memory, as well as the effect of cycle length in cross-cultural rhythm perception @rppw.bsky.social
Both of these talks explored long and complex temporal patterns in North Indian classical Music.

With: Martin Clayton & @tuomaseerola.bsky.social

@nashraa.bsky.social from @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social is presenting next at #RPPW20

Thanks for sharing Lennie. :)

Lovely time presenting my work on temporal learning of North Indian Classical Rhythmic Patterns at #SysMus25

A great initiative by our lab members.
#openresearch #openscience is what we need ❤️

Dear all,

After a long hiatus, we are excited to announce the re-launch of our monthly events, starting with our first session (online via Zoom) on December 3rd, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM GMT.

Music and Science book cover featuring a listener with headphones

I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/

Would you like to play an online game on Auditory Memory for Indian Rhythms?
I am looking for musicians unfamiliar with Indian music to participate in this fun study. You will get a score on completion. 🤓
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Click to participate: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...