Gabriele Cecchetti

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
@MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development
Interested in Music Cognition

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

Our latest paper on the retrospective revision of syntactic interpretations in music is now available in open access in Cognitive Science! [https://t.co/96vduy3fXk](https://t.co/96vduy3fXk)
@SteffenHerff @cogsci_soc @DCML_EPFL

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

Our study (@SteffenHerff @DCML_EPFL) on the incremental parsing of musical rhythm, inspired by the psycholinguistic model of @LanguageMIT, is just out in @cogsci_soc! https://t.co/s4HjpIakQv

[The MARCS Institute @MARCSInstitute]

Great to welcome back @gacecchet from @EPFL_en for visit with @SteffenHerff after a brilliant #musicscience symposium @cogsci_soc https://t.co/lscfMnD8Nr. They'll be working on new musical structure projects e.g. musical garden paths, https://t.co/b2oWPF5Ouf Stay tuned for more!

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

A screenshot from our Music Cognition symposium at the 2023 @cogsci_soc conference, just over in Sydney! Cheers to panelists John Drury, @Anna5ash, @ClairePelofi, @SteffenHerff, @chfin7 and @_xinyiguan_, and to @MARCSInstitute for hosting me (again) for the next couple of weeks

[Steffen Herff @SteffenHerff]

Many years in the making, I’m very excited to share our (@gacecchet,@pettter_e,@ecanoc) preprint “Solitary Silence and Social Sounds: Music influences mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions” #musicscience #mentalimagery
https://t.co/UXQ6ZtXPir 1/7

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

Results show a marked decrease in the use of diatonic materials in favour of other types of pitch structures, particularly octatonic ones. We also looked at indices of fragmentation and global coherence, more on this in the paper!

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

Here's our latest corpus study, exploring the development of Debussy's musical style over his entire piano works! Congrats to Sabrina Laneve and Ludovica Schaerf, who started this project as students in our Digital Musicology class! @DCML_EPFL @johentsch
https://t.co/S8qEN7EkQb

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

We approached Debussy's harmonic idiom with hierarchical analyses based on Discrete Fourier Transform, building up on the "wavescapes" by @c_viaccoz @fabianmoss @danielharasim (here's a passage from Ondine!)

[Steffen Herff @SteffenHerff]

Happy to share our new preprint 'Hierarchical syntax models of music predict theta power during music listening' with @LeonardoBo92 @gacecchet @PVuust M.Kringelbach, M.Rohrmeier. 1/9 https://t.co/BLxeN7nCNl

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

And this was just the cherry on the cake, having spent here a couple of inspiring and dense months as a visiting fellow. Thanks to @SteffenHerff for making this possible, and to @andy_tonality, Roger Dean, @perikeller and so many others for the precious discussions!

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

Excited to be presenting today, for the first time, an overview of my entire doctoral work at @MARCSInstitute!

[Sarah Wandelt @sarah_wandelt]

Super excited to share a preprint! At @Caltech, we build the first closed-loop brain-machine (#BMI) interface that is able to decode internal speech 💭. Check it out here: https://t.co/8bNDtGA6w2

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

We find that octatonic relatedness predicts harmonic functionality more parsimoniously than other types of tonal relations, as well as a clear distinction between expectancy-inducing ("dominants" and "subdominants") and expectancy-resolving harmonies ("tonics").

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

Functional, or non functional, that is the question! Our latest take on perceptual manifestations of harmonic functions in extended-tonal music has just appeared in Musicae Scientiae: https://t.co/IDUmFMc4wZ

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

From classical music to jazz, chord substitutions can contribute to the creative use of the harmonic palette while still expressing harmonic functions, depending their tonal relationship with the neighbouring chords and with the chord they replace.

[Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss]

The first morning session already revealed a huge spectrum of thoughts and ideas when it comes to #RepresentingHarmony. Our goal for the upcoming days will be to work out where we agree and where we might not want to. @DCML_EPFL #musicscience #musictheory

[Dave Baker @DavidJohnBaker]

After a week of workshopping we've finally determined the best chord at #representingharmony

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

In the study, supervised by @johentsch and myself, we used Discrete Fourier Transform and wavescapes on a novel digital corpus of piano music to investigate Debussy's departure from common-practice tonality. More to come soon!

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

A great experience @IMAmaths @RCMLondon for our student Ludovica Schaerf, whose presentation on the diachronic evolution of Debussy's style even earned a best-poster prize. Congratulations!

[IMA @IMAmaths]

Poster session at the 1st IMA Maths in Music Conference in full swing!
#maths #RCMLondon #Ima

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

@asano_rie Thank you Rie!

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

Our latest paper on the retrospective revision of syntactic interpretations in music is now available in open access in Cognitive Science! [https://t.co/96vduy3fXk](https://t.co/96vduy3fXk)
@SteffenHerff @cogsci_soc @DCML_EPFL

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

We developed a novel paradigm with tonally ambiguous melodies, and showed evidence that the listener's interpretation of the melody, as reflected in their memory of the tuning of a mistuned note, is revised retrospectively once encountering conflicting information.

[Gabriele Cecchetti @gacecchet]

Garden-paths are a well known phenomenon in language, and many accounts from music theory and analysis predict the same to occur in music whenever an ambiguous passage is reinterpreted as new events make the older interpretation less plausible.