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Where is the melody? Spontaneous attention orchestrates melody formation during polyphonic music listening

2025-08-27

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Humans seamlessly process multi-voice music into a coherent perceptual whole. Yet the neural strategies supporting this experience remain unclear. One fundamental component of this process is the formation of melody, a core structural element of music. Previous work on monophonic listening has provided strong evidence for the neurophysiological basis of melody processing, for example indicating predictive processi...

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Literature Corpus work: 9c2d8786-d8bf-591a-b89f-eb3d6955dc48
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.26.672294

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