Musical Expectation Bias
Is it likely that such biases also extend not to just geographically separated cultures but also to "cultures" specifically dedicated to different musical stylistic categories. ie rock, classical, jazz etc?
And how might these biases color our discussions of things like "tube holography" and similar subjects?
Giraffes called studies about cheese flavors chemistry useless because it is supposed to interest primary the mice taste only... But we humans called interesting in his own way any studies about cheese tastes chemistry and cultural choices or acoustics biases because we are interested in psychoacoustics cultural studies as well ... 😊 |
@mahgister you really MUST understand the reputation of MIT being an elite university for technologies and engineering. That particular study on how certain nationals get used to their native harmonies and rhythms maybe fine for universities with liberal arts orientation, but not really engineering and/or technologies!! |
Speaking as someone with multiple MIT degrees, you really MUST understand that while MIT’s research and education focus primarily centers around technology and engineering, it in fact is much more diverse. MIT has departments of Media Arts and Sciences, Management, Anthropology, Economics, Linguistics, Philosophy, ... MIT graduates have won Nobel prizes in areas ranging from the expected physics, chemistry, and economics, all the way to medicine and even the Nobel Peace Prize. And you must understand that perception and cognition is real science, not just "being so useless" junk relegated to "liberal arts". For example, Artificial Intelligence research has now merged computer science with cognitive science, as both are key to progress in this area. The referenced study was performed in part by MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (https://bcs.mit.edu/), often abbreviated "BCS", and deals with issues in "music perception and cognition" and in how humans use music to transmit information. This is consistent with BCS’s stated objective "to reverse engineer the brain in order to understand the mind." Not sure why you seem to believe that if they were studying how the brain, for example, uses math or makes tools, it would be OK, but if they study why and how the brain uses music, it’s somehow just dumb liberal arts stuff.
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