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    "pk": 25861,
    "title": "Cognitive representations of form in pop music: A probabilistic grammars\napproach",
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    "abstract": "Cognitive representations of musical structure have long been of interest to psychologists and musicians. This\nproject addresses comprehension of and long-term memory for musical form, a debated topic in music cognition. We use three\nmethods: a corpus of Billboard magazine’s top 10 songs for each of the last 20 years; a probabilistic grammar derived from\nthis corpus; and an experiment testing predictions of the grammar. Two statistical analyses of the corpus are presented here,\ndealing with its zero- and first-order Markov properties. These provide a probablistic grammar of form in popular songs. We\nhave tested this grammar by prompted recall of listeners’ memory for popular songs they claim to know well. Recalls average\nover 70% correct; errors in these recalls most often correspond to low-frequency 2-tuples in our networks. Our results show\nthat listeners learn statistical regularities of form in popular music, much as they learn melodic and harmonic structure.",
    "language": "eng",
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        {
            "first_name": "Richard",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ashley",
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            "institution": "Northwestern University",
            "department": ""
        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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