Rhythm in Language and Music

Some papers on this topic

• Collaborators: Doug Eck; Bob Port, Paul Kienzle, Fred Cummins

• Questions
  • How does a listener use the nested periodicities in speech or music to guide perception?
  • How is speech or musical performance guided by underlying periodicities?
  • How do people learn to respond preferentially to particular rhythms with exposure?

• Example
  • Learn to reproduce a particular metrical pattern
  • Duple meter

    

  • Triple meter

    

• Approach: neural network of oscillators

• Performance
  • Untrained network exposed to either duple or triple meter

    

  • Trained network correctly reproduces pattern, even when it includes temporal noise

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