id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qauxvqzy35eszi54ysadvjqyjq Elvira Brattico Musical scale properties are automatically processed in the human auditory cortex 2006 13 .pdf application/pdf 9934 796 63 Electrophysiological brain responses to musical scale violations have only been obtained under active paradigms in that pitch deviations from the relational aspects of equaltempered musical scales should also elicit early negativities We reasoned that the presence of an attention-independent difference in the brain responses between the incongruous and congruous pitches would support the hypothesis incongruities would support the prediction that pitch relations are automatically encoded according to the musical As Fig. 2 illustrates, in both the passive and active experiments, the congruous pitch elicited a fronto-centrally distributed sharp negative deflection, the N1, peaking on average Fig. 2 – Grand-average ERPs to the congruous pitch in the passive and active experiments. Fig. 4 – Grand-average ERPs to the congruous pitch, out-of-key pitch, and out-of-tune pitch in the active experiment. nonmusicians to musical scale incongruities within a singlevoice melody under both the passive and active experiments. auditory cortex as based on the pitch relations of the musical ./cache/work_qauxvqzy35eszi54ysadvjqyjq.pdf ./txt/work_qauxvqzy35eszi54ysadvjqyjq.txt