How does learning change the pleasure of the same musical event?
Controlled learning and listening-history validation
Abstract
The same musical event may feel different after different listening histories. We will combine participant-provided listening records with Musical Intelligence (MI) features from verified recordings to estimate individual exposure profiles. Recognition and continuation tasks will test these estimates. A controlled experiment will then manipulate learned expectations while keeping test audio unchanged and measure pleasure. Separate comparisons will test whether history-informed MI adds predictive value beyond self-report, listening frequency and acoustic baselines. Exposure is treated as evidence about listening experience, not a direct measurement of memory.
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