Musical Expectation Bias

"What does the "R" in PRAT stand for?"

IMO- just another goofy audiophool term.

Humans have it- electronics just record and play it back. Some better than others.

So "rhythm" is a goofy audiophool term. Brilliant. The cyborgs live among us.

"Rhythm"

@czarivey

and that was done by MIT...

Don’t they have larger priorities than fall on to being so useless?

@mahgister you really MUST understand the reputation of MIT being an elite university for technologies and engineering. That particular study on how certain nationals get used to their native harmonies and rhythms maybe fine for universities with liberal arts orientation, but not really engineering and/or technologies!!

Speaking as someone with multiple MIT degrees, you really MUST understand that while MIT’s research and education focus primarily centers around technology and engineering, it in fact is much more diverse. MIT has departments of Media Arts and Sciences, Management, Anthropology, Economics, Linguistics, Philosophy, ... MIT graduates have won Nobel prizes in areas ranging from the expected physics, chemistry, and economics, all the way to medicine and even the Nobel Peace Prize.

And you must understand that perception and cognition is real science, not just "being so useless" junk relegated to "liberal arts". For example, Artificial Intelligence research has now merged computer science with cognitive science, as both are key to progress in this area.

The referenced study was performed in part by MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (https://bcs.mit.edu/), often abbreviated "BCS", and deals with issues in "music perception and cognition" and in how humans use music to transmit information. This is consistent with BCS’s stated objective "to reverse engineer the brain in order to understand the mind."

Not sure why you seem to believe that if they were studying how the brain, for example, uses math or makes tools, it would be OK, but if they study why and how the brain uses music, it’s somehow just dumb liberal arts stuff.

Thank you for clearing the air.

You are a good guy and i cannot thank you enough for the Joey De Francesco recommendation..I collected all i could of him and he became my favorite on Hammond...😊

But psychoacoustics study cultural sound habits and stylistic perception and acoustic perception biases and habits in all cultures...

It is a meaningful study in psychoacoustics field which is not part of liberal arts science but more pertaining to general physiological and cultural related acoustics studies..

@mahgister you really MUST understand the reputation of MIT being an elite university for technologies and engineering. That particular study on how certain nationals get used to their native harmonies and rhythms maybe fine for universities with liberal arts orientation, but not really engineering and/or technologies!!