Comparison of mismatch MEG to natural minor scale and harmonic minor scale

• Ando Hiromitsu

  Tokyo Denki University

• Nemoto Iku

  Tokyo Denki University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 自然的短音階と和声的短音階のミスマッチ脳磁界の比較

Abstract

Minor mode is known to elicit stronger emotional responses than major mode in the brain. The present work focused on the minor scales and natural and harmonic minor scales were compared in automatic brain responses in an oddball paradigm. The standard stimulus was either the natural or harmonic minor scale, and a deviant stimulus lacked one scale tone of the corresponding complete minor scale. The brain responded to omission of every tone but omission of the tone B flat in the natural minor experiment elicited larger response than that of the other tones. In particular, the response was significantly larger than that to omission of B in the harmonic minor experiment. This result suggested that the brain felt the natural minor scale to be actually more natural than the harmonic minor scale.

Journal

• IEICE technical report. ME and bio cybernetics

  IEICE technical report. ME and bio cybernetics 111 (367), 31-32, 2011-12-13

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Keywords

• magnetoencephalogram
• music
• natural and harmonic minor scales
• oddball paradigm

Details

• CRID: 1574231877611575552
• NII Article ID: 110009466789
• NII Book ID: AN1001320X
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
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