Sustained field activity does not track melodic structure.
Evidence
Statistically, over the course of the entire sequence, the SFs for the tonic and melodic conditions are not different, so it appears that the process that produces the SF does not distinguish the condition in which the notes produce a melody (SF differences based on melodic sources: ‑1973.99, p = 0.29; SF based on the 2-dipole SF-fit (0–1 Hz): t max = 1236.12, p = 0.545). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4703
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- The sustained cortical field does not differentiate melody from repeated tonic notes (similarity 0.89)
- The sustained field response does not encode whether tones form a melody (similarity 0.88)
- The sustained field does not distinguish melodic from tonic sequences (similarity 0.85)
- Sustained cortical fields can be measured over long musical sequences. (similarity 0.81)
- Melodic notes produce earlier N1m peaks than tonic notes do. (similarity 0.80)
- Melodic differences in brain responses vanish once the sustained field is removed (similarity 0.79)
- Melodic notes evoke larger N1m and P2m responses than tonic notes (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Percussion excitation is a short impulse rather than a sustained tone
#qualifies(0.75) — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1288