Music and Neuro-expectations

"Music has a grammar, which, like language, consists of rules that specify which notes can follow which other notes in a piece of music. According to Pearce: "the question is whether the rules are hard-wired into the auditory system or learned through experience of listening to music and recording, unconsciously, which notes tend to follow others."




Read the rest of the piece from ScienceDaily on the brain's processing of music and expectations here:


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100115204704.htm