Music offers a useful opportunity to consider the factors contributing to the experience of curiosity in the context of dynamically changing stimuli. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the perception of change in music triggers curiosity as to how the heard music will unfold. Participants were presented with unfamiliar musical excerpts and asked to provide continuous ratings of their subjective experience of curiosity and calm, and their perception of change, as the music unfolded. As hypothesized, we found that for all musical pieces, the perceptual experience of change Granger-caused feelings of curiosity but not feelings of calm. Our results suggest music is a powerful tool with which to examine the factors contributing to curiosity induction. Accordingly, we outline ways in which extensions to the approach taken here may be useful: both in elucidating our information-seeking drive more generally, and in elucidating the manifestation of this drive during music listening.

音乐提供了一个有用的机会来考虑在动态变化的刺激背景下促成好奇心体验的因素。在这里，我们测试了这样一个假设，即对音乐变化的感知会引发对所听到的音乐将如何展开的好奇心。参与者被展示了不熟悉的音乐片段，并要求他们提供他们对好奇心和冷静的主观体验以及随着音乐的展开而对变化的感知的连续评级。正如假设的那样，我们发现对于所有的音乐作品，改变格兰杰的感知体验都会引起好奇心，而不是平静感。我们的结果表明，音乐是一种强大的工具，可以用来检查导致好奇心诱发的因素。因此，我们概述了对此处采用的方法的扩展可能有用的方式：