Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine (medicalxpress.com) 14
Researchers believe they've found evidence that brain signals reveal the pitches of notes in imagined musical melodies, reports Medical Express:
Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the surfaces of their brains for clinical monitoring. Participants quietly listened to the first bars of children's tunes, then imagined the melodies of subsequent bars before humming their imagined melodies. Brain activity from the patients carried information about relative pitches within the imagined melodies. Combining note-level pitch predictions over time allowed the research team to recreate melodic changes that reflected the structure of the imagined songs...
"The model we created decodes relative pitch classes — such as do, re, mi, fa, sol, and la — rather than exact, absolute pitches," [said tudy co-lead Jii Kwon of Seoul National University]. "This is useful because people often recognize melodies by the relationships between notes, even when the same melody is played in a different key."
"The model we created decodes relative pitch classes — such as do, re, mi, fa, sol, and la — rather than exact, absolute pitches," [said tudy co-lead Jii Kwon of Seoul National University]. "This is useful because people often recognize melodies by the relationships between notes, even when the same melody is played in a different key."
After reading the title... (Score:2)
...I imagined exactly this [wikipedia.org]. It looks a bit self-referencing, isnt'it ?!?
Meow (Score:2)
So it's like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
cool! (Score:2)
This was figured out 17 years ago (Score:2)
They could have just watched this video and asked Bobby McFerrin. He jumps in 3 different spots and has the crowd sing along with him 3 different notes, then proceeds to make a song by jumping to 10 different spots, and the crowd spontaneously sings all 10 of the notes flawlessly. He says it works with every crowd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Exactly the same result, demonstrated at the World Science Festival in 2009.
Yes, he's the "Don't Worry Be Happy" guy. His other work is phenomenal, one of the best
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How is an example of relative pitches spontaneously being generated by a crowd based on a small example of pitches not related to a study of spontaneous pitches generated by individuals based on a small example of pitches?
You either didn't read the article or didn't watch the video.
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Devil's Tower (Score:2)
So... was anyone sculpting Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes?
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Stock up on the tinfoil, lads (Score:1)
Only a matter of time before it becomes possible to decode people's internal monologues remotely.
Or just train yourself to think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts, thin unsexy thoughts...
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We need to force these computers to join Psi Corps and obey their rules!
Let's not go too far on this (Score:3)
Because i don't want to get a copyright strike for playing songs in my head
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