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Presentation 2008-03-13 09:20
Neurophysiological correlate to the importance of tones comprising the musical scale -- an MEG study --
Katsuya Maeshima, Iku Nemoto (TDU) MBE2007-105
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(in English) The recognition of a musical scale is an indispensable factor at least for a tune to be recognized as familiar. This study aimed to determine neurophysiological importance of tone in musical scale by using MEG. To this end, we prepared two experiments, and we call one the ‘Skip’ and another one the ‘Squeeze’. ‘Skip’ and ‘Squeeze’ are incomplete C major scales in which one tone is lacking. In ‘Skip’, the preceding tone is prolonged and in ‘Squeeze’, the subsequent tones are moved forward. In both the experiments, we observed MEG response in the time period when a tone is lacking. Large responses were observed when E or G was missing in the ‘Skip’ experiments, and in ‘Squeeze’, D, G or B caused large responses. The present study shows that these methods are quite effective in studying neurophysiological basis of the musical scale, one of the most important factors in music.
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(in English) Musical scale / MEG / / / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 107, no. 541, MBE2007-105, pp. 1-4, March 2008.
Paper # MBE2007-105 
Date of Issue 2008-03-06 (MBE) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee NC MBE  
Conference Date 2008-03-12 - 2008-03-14 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Tamagawa Univ 
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Conference Code 2008-03-NC-MBE 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Neurophysiological correlate to the importance of tones comprising the musical scale 
Sub Title (in English) an MEG study 
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Keyword(2) MEG  
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1st Author's Name Katsuya Maeshima  
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo Denki University (TDU)
2nd Author's Name Iku Nemoto  
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Denki University (TDU)
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Date Time 2008-03-13 09:20:00 
Presentation Time 20 minutes 
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Paper # MBE2007-105 
Volume (vol) vol.107 
Number (no) no.541 
Page pp.1-4 
#Pages 4 
Date of Issue 2008-03-06 (MBE) 

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