Music

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Goodness ratings of melodic openings and closures.

The purpose of the present study was to map the suitability of melodic intervals for opening and closing a melody. Listeners (n = 13), belonging to two groups with different levels of expertise, rated the 25 within-octave intervals (unison plus the 12 ...
Piet G Vos, Dennis Pasveer (Percept Psychophys, 200205)
goodness-ratings-melodic-openings-closures.asp

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Effect of harmonic relatedness on the detection of temporal asynchronies.

Speeded intonation judgments of a target chord are facilitated when the chord is preceded by a harmonically related prime chord. The present study extends harmonic priming to temporal asynchrony judgments. In both tasks, the normative target chords ...
Barbara Tillmann, Jamshed J Bharucha (Percept Psychophys, 200205)
effect-harmonic-relatedness-detection-temporal-asynchronies.asp

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Musical beat influences corticospinal drive to ankle flexor and extensor muscles in man.

Body movements in man are frequently observed in relation to musical rhythms. In this study we have investigated the effect of strongly rhythmic music on corticospinal drive to the ankle extensor and flexor muscles involved in foot tapping. Surface ...
Emily M F Wilson, Nick J Davey (Int J Psychophysiol, 200205)
musical-beat-influences-corticospinal-drive-ankle-flexor-extensor.asp

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Metabolic cost of aerobic dance bench stepping at varying cadences and bench heights.

To determine the metabolic and cardiovascular responses of aerobic dance bench stepping (ADBS) at commonly used cadences and bench heights, 30 women (19-47 years of age) performed a graded maximal treadmill test and four 8-minute submaximal ADBS ...
Tamara D Grier, Lisa K Lloyd, John L Walker, Tinker D Murray (J Strength Cond Res, 200205)
metabolic-cost-aerobic-dance-bench-stepping-varying-cadences-bench.asp

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Automatic and controlled processing of melodic contour and interval information measured by electrical brain activity.

Most work on how pitch is encoded in the auditory cortex has focused on tonotopic (absolute) pitch maps. However, melodic information is thought to be encoded in the brain in two different "relative pitch" forms, a domain-general contour code (up/down ...
Laurel J Trainor, Kelly L McDonald, Claude Alain (J Cogn Neurosci, 200204)
automatic-controlled-processing-melodic-contour-interval-information.asp

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Effects of frequency, instrumental family, and cochlear implant type on timbre recognition and appraisal.

The purpose of this study was to compare postlingually deafened cochlear implant recipients and normal-hearing adults on timbre (tone quality) recognition and appraisal of 8 musical instruments representing 3 frequency ranges and 4 instrumental families. ...
Kate Gfeller, Shelley Witt, George Woodworth, Maureen A Mehr, John Knutson (Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol, 200204)
effects-frequency-instrumental-family-cochlear-implant-type-timbre.asp

97.

Metamotivational states displayed using differential digital photoplethysmograms while listening to music and noise.

The theory of psychological reversal postulates that individuals switch between paratelic and telic metamotivational states. To observe the paratelic state as an actual phenomenon using a physiological index, a correlation between changes in P-wave ...
Miharu Matsuura (Percept Mot Skills, 200204)
metamotivational-states-displayed-differential-digital.asp

98.

Limits of rhythm perception.

To what extent are listeners sensitive to the time intervals separating non-consecutive events in sound sequences? The subjects of Experiment 1 were presented with sequences of 20 identical tones in which the 10 odd-numbered tones or the 10 even-numbered ...
Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200204)
limits-rhythm-perception.asp

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Perceptual integration of timing and intensity variations in the perception of musical accents.

The author investigated the detection of timing and intensity variations in tone sequences within the framework of perceptual independence or integration. The participants listened to sequences of tones that contained variations in timing, intensity, or ...
Hasan Gürkan Tekman (J Gen Psychol, 200204)
perceptual-integration-timing-intensity-variations-perception-musical.asp

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Change detection in multi-voice music: the role of musical structure, musical training, and task demands.

This study evaluated the relationship between primitive and scheme-driven grouping (A. S. Bregman, 1990) by comparing the ability of different listeners to detect single note changes in 3-voice musical compositions. Primitive grouping was manipulated by ...
Edward J Crawley, Barbara E Acker-Mills, Richard E Pastore, Shawn Weil (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200204)
change-detection-multi-voice-music-role-musical-structure-musical.asp