ABSTRACT
A good way to understand the influence of context (previously presented musical material) is to consider how these maps change under the influence of it. In figure 4a context of two dotted quarter notes was presented before the notes shown in the rhythm space. This context heavily biases the behavior of the connectionist model to quantize the following inter-onset intervals in subdivisions thereof as is shown by the enlargement of the area marked B. The area marked C completely disappears in the light of the contextual evidence for these subdivisions. Also in the Longuet-Higgins model the quantization is influenced (or even guided) by context. It does so by propagating the
established meter to the processing of the remaining data. Using a duple meter as context, a very similar distortion of the regions in rhythm space can be seen (figure 4b).
