{"id":30338,"date":"2019-11-30T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T14:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=30338"},"modified":"2019-11-18T21:59:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:59:30","slug":"study-suggests-there-is-pattern-to-peoples-musical-preferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2019\/11\/study-suggests-there-is-pattern-to-peoples-musical-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests there is pattern to people&#8217;s musical preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Society for Neuroscience press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"first\" class=\"lead\"><strong>People prefer songs with only a moderate amount of uncertainty and unpredictability<\/strong>, according to research recently published in\u00a0<strong><em>JNeurosci<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"text\">\n<p>Scientists have long struggled to understand why activities of little apparent evolutionary value, like listening to music, bring so much pleasure. <strong>Previous studies have linked listening to and making predictions about music with activation in reward centers of the brain<\/strong> but have produced <strong>conflicting results on how musical predictions and surprises relate to pleasure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gold\u00a0<em>et al<\/em>. employed a mathematical model to determine the predictability and uncertainty of musical fragments and then asked listeners to rate how much they liked the songs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listeners preferred songs of medium complexity, such as those that counterbalanced uncertain expectations with ultimately predictable musical events<\/strong>. Conversely, songs affording more certain expectations could contain more surprising musical events and still be liked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"impact-unit-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"pgs-dpg-flex\" data-pgs-partner-id=\"sciencedaily\" data-loaded=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Society for Neuroscience press release: People prefer songs with only a moderate amount of uncertainty and unpredictability, according to research recently published in\u00a0JNeurosci. Scientists have long struggled to understand why activities of little apparent evolutionary value, like listening to music, bring so much pleasure. Previous studies have linked listening to and making predictions&hellip;&nbsp;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,67,93,12],"class_list":["post-30338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neuroscience","tag-brain","tag-music","tag-neuroscience-2","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30453,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30338\/revisions\/30453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}