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Musical Expectation

Musical Expectation is a cognitive construct in music perception denoting the mental anticipation of forthcoming musical events based on implicit or explicit knowledge of structural regularities, stylistic conventions, and contextual cues within a musical sequence.

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14.9K

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291

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161

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2017–2026

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165

Sweet anticipation: music and the psychology of expectation

Choice Reviews Online · 2007 · 1.9K citations

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The cognition of basic musical structures

Choice Reviews Online · 2002 · 694 citations

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Brain Indices of Music Processing: “Nonmusicians” are Musical

Stefan Koelsch, Tomas Gunter, Angela D. Friederici et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 2000 · 560 citations

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Music Cognition and Perceptual Facilitation: A Connectionist Framework

Jamshed J. Bharucha · Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal · 1987 · 380 citations

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An event-related potential (ERP) study of musical expectancy: Comparison of musicians with nonmusicians.

Mireille Besson, Frédérique Faïta · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance · 1995 · 320 citations

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Authors

291

  1. MT
    Marcus T. Pearce

    Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

    19 publications · 1.9K citations

    16

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  2. SK
    Stefan Koelsch

    Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany

    8 publications · 1.3K citations

    8

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  3. BT
    Barbara Tillmann

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    8 publications · 537 citations

    8

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  4. EB
    Emmanuel Bigand

    Université de Bourgogne, France

    7 publications · 651 citations

    7

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  5. GA
    Geraínt A. Wiggins

    Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 1.1K citations

    6

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Institutions

161

  1. Queen Mary University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    31 publications

    1.9K citations

  2. Aarhus University

    Aarhus, Denmark

    13 h-index

    27 publications

    1.9K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    25 publications

    2K citations

  4. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    8 h-index

    17 publications

    772 citations

  5. Goldsmiths University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    18 publications

    2.3K citations

  6. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

    Leipzig, Germany

    8 h-index

    26 publications

    3.8K citations

  7. Université de Bourgogne

    Dijon, France

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    873 citations

  8. Royal Academy of Music

    Aarhus, Denmark

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    1K citations

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Venues

  1. Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal

    19 publications · 2.3K citations

    18

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  2. Psychomusicology Music Mind and Brain

    8 publications · 620 citations

    8

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  3. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

    7 publications · 1.1K citations

    7

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  4. Perception & Psychophysics

    7 publications · 765 citations

    7

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  5. Frontiers in Psychology

    6 publications · 387 citations

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