“… 2. While other studies have aimed to use balanced samples that matched one or more participant groups’ cultural backgrounds to compare experiences with familiar vs. non-familiar musics (Balkwill & Thompson, 1999; Balkwill et al, 2004; Hadavi et al, 2023), the goal of this study is to measure perceptions of cross-cultural music similarity in a global sample, following the same protocol as a previous study (Daikoku et al 2022) without comparing familiarity. By chance, the Cantometric sample happened to include one Indian and one Japanese song, but the sample was chosen to be globally diverse and was not specifically curated for any particular participant groups.…”