Music

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Good pitch memory is widespread.

Here we show that good pitch memory is widespread among adults with no musical training. We tested unselected college students on their memory for the pitch level of instrumental soundtracks from familiar television programs. Participants heard 5-s ...
E Glenn Schellenberg, Sandra E Trehub (Psychol Sci, 200305)
good-pitch-memory-widespread.asp

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N100m in children possessing absolute pitch.

We recorded the auditory evoked magnetic fields from children with and without absolute pitch under the following conditions: (a) hearing 1000 Hz pure tones inattentively, (b) hearing eight random tones inattentively and (c) listening to eight random ...
Hiroyuki Hirose, Masaya Kubota, Ikumi Kimura, Masato Yumoto, Yoichi Sakakihara (Neuroreport, 200305)
n-m-children-possessing-absolute-pitch.asp

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Effects of simultaneous exercise and loud music on hearing acuity and auditory function.

Hearing acuity can be reduced temporarily after exposure to loud noise, and the physiological responses that occur with exercise may enhance this effect. Currently, it is not known whether short-term reductions in hearing acuity after noise exposure and ...
Sridhar Krishnamurti, Peter W Grandjean (J Strength Cond Res, 200305)
effects-simultaneous-exercise-loud-music-hearing-acuity-auditory.asp

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Auditory imagery from musical notation in expert musicians.

Anecdotal evidence has suggested that musical notation can trigger auditory images. Expert musicians silently read scores containing well-known themes embedded into the notation of an embellished phrase and judged if a tune heard aloud thereafter was the ...
Warren Brodsky, Avishai Henik, Bat-Sheva Rubinstein, Moshe Zorman (Percept Psychophys, 200305)
auditory-imagery-musical-notation-expert-musicians.asp

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Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming.

Behavioral studies have provided evidence that the processing of a musical target is faster and more accurate when it is harmonically related to the preceding prime context. We investigated the neural correlates of processing related and unrelated ...
Barbara Tillmann, Petr Janata, Jamshed J Bharucha (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200304)
activation-inferior-frontal-cortex-musical-priming.asp

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Gender bias in the evaluation of new age music.

Eminent composers in Western European art music continue to be predominantly male and eminence in contemporary pop music is similarly male dominated. One contributing factor may be the continuing under-valuation of womens music. Possible anti-female bias ...
Ann Colley, Adrian North, David J Hargreaves (Scand J Psychol, 200304)
gender-bias-evaluation-new-age-music.asp

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The costs and benefits of tonal centers for chord processing.

Harmonic priming studies have shown that a musical context, with its established tonal center, influences target chord processing. This study investigated costs and benefits of priming tonal centers for target processing by adding a baseline condition ...
Barbara Tillmann, Petr Janata, Jeffrey Birk, Jamshed J Bharucha (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200304)
costs-benefits-tonal-centers-chord-processing.asp

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Postrecognition of interleaved melodies as an indirect measure of auditory stream formation.

Primitive processes involved in auditory stream formation are measured with indirect, objective method. A target melody interleaved with a distractor sequence is followed by a probe melody that was identical to the target or differed by 2 notes. ...
Caroline Bey, Stephen McAdams (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200304)
postrecognition-interleaved-melodies-indirect-measure-auditory-stream.asp

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The self-composing brain: towards a glial-neuronal brain theory.

A brain model is proposed which describes its structural organization and the related functions as compartments organized in time and space. On a molecular level the negative feedback loops of clock-controlled genes are interpreted as compartments. This ...
Bernhard Mitterauer, Kristen Kopp (Brain Cogn, 200304)
self-composing-brain-towards-glial-neuronal-brain-theory.asp

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Modal analysis of a violin octet.

Experimental modal analysis of a complete Hutchins-Schelleng violin octet, combined with cavity mode analysis and room-averaged acoustic analysis, gives a highly detailed characterization of the dynamics for this historic group of instruments. All the ...
George Bissinger (J Acoust Soc Am, 200304)
modal-analysis-violin-octet.asp