Person
David Huron
Researcher, Ohio State University; music cognition
Researcher at Ohio State University studying how repetition and habituation shape musical enjoyment, using mice as a model system for attention and dishabituation. Cited via Derek Thompson's Hitmakers for the finding that music worldwide follows a consistent pattern of repetition punctuated by novelty — enough repetition to build fluency and pleasure, interrupted just often enough to prevent full habituation (see Huron Mice Habituation-Dishabituation Music Study).
Discussed in
- Episode 190 — 190-how-to-give-an-election-winning-speech (referenced)