9 papers
Do Melody and Rhythm Coevolve?
Harin Lee, Rainer Polak, Manuel Anglada-Tort +3
Music comprises two core structural components, melody and rhythm, that vary widely across cultures. Whether these components coevolve in a coupled way or follow independent trajec…
Active Inference with People: a general approach to real-time adaptive experiments
Lucas Gautheron, Nori Jacoby, Peter Harrison
Adaptive experiments automatically optimize their design throughout the data collection process, which can bring substantial benefits compared to conventional experimental settings…
GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition
Harin Lee, Elif Ãelen, Peter Harrison +5
Human annotations of mood in music are essential for music generation and recommender systems. However, existing datasets predominantly focus on Western songs with terms derived fr…
The Dynamics of Collective Creativity in Human-AI Hybrid Societies
Shota Shiiku, Raja Marjieh, Manuel Anglada-Tort +1
Generative AI is shaping an increasingly hybrid society, where ideas and cultural artefacs are created both by humans and intelligent machines. Human creativity is influenced in co…
Visual and Auditory Aesthetic Preferences Across Cultures
Harin Lee, Eline Van Geert, Elif Celen +4
Research on how humans perceive aesthetics in shapes, colours, and music has predominantly focused on Western populations, limiting our understanding of how cultural environments s…
How constraints on editing affects cultural evolution
Ofer Tchernichovski, Eitan Globerson, Peter Harrison +1
When is it beneficial to constrain creativity? Creativity thrives with freedom, but when people collaborate to create artifacts, there is tension between giving individuals freedom…