<P> Culture in music cognition refers to the impact that a person's culture has on their music cognition, including their preferences, emotion recognition, and musical memory . Musical preferences are biased toward culturally familiar musical traditions beginning in infancy, and adults' classification of the emotion of a musical piece depends on both culturally specific and universal structural features . Additionally, individuals' musical memory abilities are greater for culturally familiar music than for culturally unfamiliar music . The sum of these effects makes culture a powerful influence in music cognition . </P> <P> Culturally bound preferences and familiarity for music begin in infancy and continue through adolescence and adulthood . People tend to prefer and remember music from their own cultural tradition . </P>

What is the effect of culture on the perception of music