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

Full Abstract

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. Listeners decided whether the probe melody was present or not in the composite sequence. Interleaved melody recognition is not possible when distractor sequences have the same mean frequency and maximum contour crossover with target melodies. Performance increases with mean frequency separation and timbral dissimilarity and is unaffected by the duration of the silent interval between composite sequence and probe melody. The relation between this indirect task measuring the interleaved melody recognition boundary and direct judgments measuring the fission boundary is discussed.

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Author information

Author/s: Bey, Caroline (C); McAdams, Stephen (S);

Affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université René Descartes and Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Clinical Trial; Journal Article

Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Apr; vol 29 (issue 2) : pp 267-79

Dates: Created 2003/05/22; Completed 2003/09/09; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12760614, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Acoustic Stimulation
Adolescent
Adult
Attention
Auditory Perception
Dichotic Listening Tests - psychology

Discrimination Learning
Female
Humans
Male
Music - psychology
Recognition (Psychology)

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