Where is the melody? Spontaneous attention orchestrates melody formation during polyphonic music listening
Martin Winchester, Kevin Reynolds, Charbel Nebo, Ian Cecil Scott, Giovanni M. Di Liberto
The paper investigates how spontaneous attention influences melody formation during polyphonic music listening using EEG and transformer models, finding that attentional bias shapes neural encoding and aligns with different theoretical models.
bioRxiv · Aug 26, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience