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Chants, ballads, nursery rhymes jingles, all suggest music supports verbal memory. But does it? Under which conditions? What are the mechanisms that underlies this positive effect? We are studying these questions in a special context where music is played at the background of audio-text (spoken words). 

We ask what sort of musical organization at the pitch and temporal levels surprise listeners and evoke an emotional rewarding effect? As well as What are the brain signals that reflect these surprises?

We are studying the connection between music, motion and visual percepts.

Traditional Arab music is very different from Western music: It is melodic (no chords or harmony), monophonic (single main voice), ornamental, and is based on a rich set of scales (maqamat) and complex rhythmic patterns. We are interested in understanding how these differences affect music perception in listeners who grew up on this music versus those who did not.
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