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.
