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Ewa Anna Zwolińska
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Dariusz Mikołajewski
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Paweł Adam Trzos
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Keywords:
listening, tonality, audiation, melody differentiation, music ability
Abstract
Current knowledge suggests that the perception of music and its development may be fully described using the languages of physics, medicine, and neuroscience—including computational neuroscience. The aim of this study is to establish a methodological setting for testing the neural correlates of tonality differentiation. The procedure described in the article allows for a comparison of the outcomes of differential tonality listening in people with a certain level of stabilized musical abilities, and their neural correlations using EEG, taking into consideration the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) paradigm. The proposed methodology may constitute another step toward the assessment and objectivization of musical abilities. The hypothesis regarding the reflection of musical abilities in auditory pathways activation within CNS may prove to be true.
Author Biographies
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Ewa Anna Zwolińska
Ewa Anna Zwolińska – Professor at the Music Pedagogy Faculty, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). She is a musician, pedagogue, scientist, and researcher of music education. Her special interest is the study of audiation and E.E. Gordon’s Theory of Music Learning. First president of the Polish Edwin E. Gordon Society.
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Dariusz Mikołajewski
Dariusz Mikołajewski, PhD Eng., MBA – Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mechanics and Applied Computer Science, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz (Poland). Head of ICT Laboratory, Assistant Professor at the Neurocognitive Laboratory, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń (Poland).
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Paweł Adam Trzos
Paweł Adam Trzos, PhD – Assistant Professor at the Music Pedagogy Faculty, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). He deals with the problems of research on early school music education. His special interest is the study of audiation. He is a member of the Polish Pedagogy Society and the National Education Ministry Team of Experts for reviewing music education reference books. Dr. Trzos is also a scientific secretary of Art Comity works in the Department of Human Sciences in Bydgoszcz Scientific Society.
