Brains on Beats

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29 (NIPS 2016)

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Authors

Umut Güçlü, Jordy Thielen, Michael Hanke, Marcel van Gerven

Abstract

We developed task-optimized deep neural networks (DNNs) that achieved state-of-the-art performance in different evaluation scenarios for automatic music tagging. These DNNs were subsequently used to probe the neural representations of music. Representational similarity analysis revealed the existence of a representational gradient across the superior temporal gyrus (STG). Anterior STG was shown to be more sensitive to low-level stimulus features encoded in shallow DNN layers whereas posterior STG was shown to be more sensitive to high-level stimulus features encoded in deep DNN layers.