... as a defining characteristic, suggesting that hooks may be understood as an interaction with attentional and memory processes. The current study aims to investigate which musical elements of pop music influence participant perceptions of salience and memorability. Participants were presented with four pop songs...

...Jonas Vibell; Ahnate Lim; Scott Sinnett Considerable evidence converges on the plasticity of attention and the possibility that it can be modulated through regular training. Music training, for instance, has been correlated with modulations of early perceptual and attentional processes. However...

... mismatch negativity, MMN) and behavioral measurements (conscious discrimination). Furthermore, we wanted to see if focusing attention to the sounds modulated the neural processing. We used chords comprised of either highly consonant or highly dissonant intervals and further manipulated the degree...

... to be shorter. Thus, attending to different metrical levels in music, by deliberately directing attention and motor activity, affects time perception. Figure 1. Notations of the rhythmic patterns. A pilot study several weeks before the current experiment tested these stimuli, including...

... recognition for piano-like tones, and also to musical instrument (timbre) perception ( Won, Drennan, Kang, & Rubinstein, 2010 ). Moreover, for adults with CIs, there is some evidence linking speech perception in noise to pre-attentive discrimination of changes in pitch and intensity ( Sandmann et al...

...Ben Duane This study examines the difference between prominent and non-prominent lines (e.g., melodies and accompaniments). After reviewing research suggesting that lines with few repeating patterns would readily capture attention, the hypothesis that prominent lines tend to be less repetitive...

...Martin Norgaard; Samantha N. Emerson; Kimberly Dawn; James D. Fidlon A growing body of research suggests that jazz musicians concatenate stored auditory and motor patterns during improvisation. We hypothesized that this mechanism allows musicians to focus attention more flexibly during...

... repetitive, probably facilitating listeners’ tendency to focus on and follow the melodic lines they support. With the aim of contributing to the unexplored area of the relationship between repetition and attention in polyphonic music listening, this paper presents an empirical investigation of the way...

... in such diverse fields as speech perception, music perception, neurophysiology and computational neuroscience. This interdisciplinary approach to research in audition is one of this book s legacies. Received: January 19, 2015, accepted April 30, 2015. Key words: attention, streaming, neuroimaging, ERP, cognition...

... relationships, and participants (who were classically trained musicians) had to judge whether a probe fell on the beat in one or both rhythms. In a selective attention condition, they had to attend to one rhythm and to ignore the other, whereas in a divided attention condition, they had to attend to both...

... whenever they heard something from earlier in the piece repeat. Additional exposures facilitated repetition detection for long units, but impaired repetition detection for short ones, exposing an attentional shift toward larger temporal spans across multiple hearings. Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, 201...

...-related skills, such as reading and hearing speech in background noise, which are critical to academic progress, emotional health, and vocational success. 12 December 2010 21 July 2011 © 2011 by The Regents of the University of California 2011 musicians language attention memory...

... reliable results were, (b) how results would change if listeners' attention changed from nondirected (NDL) to directed listening (DL), and (c) whether the perception of clash of keys is influenced by the musical style of the particular composition. Participants included 101 expert listeners and 147...

..., adult listeners weight events within a measure in a hierarchical manner. We tested if listeners without advanced music training form such hierarchical representations for a rhythmical sound sequence under different attention conditions (Attend, Unattend, and Passive). Participants detected occasional...