What makes a melody: The perceptual singularity of pitch sequences

被引:30
作者
Cousineau, Marion [1 ,2 ]
Demany, Laurent [3 ]
Pressnitzer, Daniel [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Paris 05, CNRS, Lab Psychol Percept, UMR 8158, F-75230 Paris 05, France
[2] Ecole Normale Super, Dept Etud Cognit, F-75230 Paris 05, France
[3] Univ Bordeaux, CNRS, Lab Mouvement, Cognit UMR 5227, F-33076 Bordeaux, France
关键词
hearing; loudness; COCHLEAR IMPLANT; MUSIC PERCEPTION; AUDITORY-CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; MEMORY; INTERVAL; SOUNDS; TIME;
D O I
10.1121/1.3257206
中图分类号
O42 [声学];
学科分类号
070206 ; 082403 ;
摘要
This study investigated the ability of normal-hearing listeners to process random sequences of tones varying in either pitch or loudness. Same/different judgments were collected for pairs of sequences with a variable length (up to eight elements) and built from only two different elements, which were 200-ms harmonic complex tones. The two possible elements of all sequences had a fixed level of discriminability, corresponding to a d(') value of about 2, irrespective of the auditory dimension (pitch or loudness) along which they differed. This made it possible to assess sequence processing per se, independent of the accuracy of sound encoding. Pitch sequences were found to be processed more effectively than loudness sequences. However, that was the case only when the sequence elements included low-rank harmonics, which could be at least partially resolved in the auditory periphery. The effect of roving and transposition was also investigated. These manipulations reduced overall performance, especially transposition, but an advantage for pitch sequences was still observed. These results suggest that automatic frequency-shift detectors, available for pitch sequences but not loudness sequences, participate in the effective encoding of melodies.
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页码:3179 / 3187
页数:9
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