The english magazine Wired features an article based on CFIN research “Capturing the musical brain with Lasso: Dynamic decoding of musical features from fMRI data” by Toiviainen P, Alluri V, Brattico E, Wallentin M, Vuust P, Published in Neuroimage Nov 19 2013.
“The Danish and Finnish team, from Aarhus University and the Universities of Jyväskylä and Helsinki respectively, asked 15 volunteers to listen to a 16-minute excerpt from the Beatles album Abbey Road once each while having their brains imaged. Data on the resulting activity was then fed into a computer algorithm, which used regularised regression machine learning techniques to identify the areas of the brain that would be most helpful in predicting what musical features would come next in any given piece of music …”
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