Is there a "mind" behind the music? Attributing music to AI can suppress narrative meaning-making.

Cogn Res Princ Implic · 2026 · PMC12953833 · PMID 41770472

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There was no main effect of actual composer, F (1, 6) = 0.25, p = .64, but the interaction approached significance, F (1, 2093) = 3.26, p = .07, η 2 p = .002.

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