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Jan252010

To appreciate music, we need surprise

Filed under General by earle at 12:03 pm

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/

This is a blog from Jonah Lehrer, a writer for Wired magazine, among other.

This explains a lot about the way we need an element of surprise, only satisfied when the final chord completes the expectation of the frontal cortex.

One Response to “To appreciate music, we need surprise”

  1. dogugotw Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    There is a great series over at BoingBoing called 'Adventures in Music'
    http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/23/adventures...

    Great stuff.

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