...Michael W. Weiss; Isabelle Peretz Recognition memory is better for vocal melodies than instrumental melodies. Here we examine whether this vocal advantage extends to recall. Thirty-one violinists learned four melodies (28 notes, 16 s), two produced by voice and two by violin. Their task...

...Andrew V. Frane; Martin M. Monti Some researchers and study participants have expressed an intuition that novel rhythmic sequences are easier to recall and reproduce if they have a melody, implying that melodicity (the presence of musical pitch variation) fundamentally enhances perception...

...Miriam Rainsford; Matthew A. Palmer; James D. Sauer D istinctive stimuli are better recognized than typical stimuli in many domains (e.g., faces, words). Distinctiveness predicts the point of recognition of a melody ( Bailes, 2010 ), and the recognition of unique tones within a melody ( Vuvan...

...Jung Nyo Kim; Edward W. Large; Yeongjin Gwon; Richard Ashley The importance of harmony perception in understanding tonal melodies has been extensively studied, but underlying processes of implied harmonic perception remain unexplored. This study explores how listeners perceive implied harmony...

...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...

... proximity) were manipulated by conditioning listeners to large melodic leaps; preference for small intervals was reduced after a brief exposure. In Experiment 2, expectations for leaps to rise and steps to fall (step declination) were manipulated by exposing listeners to melodies comprising rising steps...

...Caroline Palmer Melody has been defined as a distinct perceptual unit that exhibits stability and coherence to listeners and performers. These psychological processes (distinctiveness, stability, coherence) contribute to the foundations of three theories of music cognition (Bregman, 1990; Krumhansl...

... expectancy (Narmour, 1990, 1992, 2000). Two measures of melodic processing difficulty were used to assess the influence of emergent-level structure: serial-reconstruction and cohesion ratings. In the serial-reconstruction experiment (Experiment 1), reconstruction was more efficient for melodies with simple...

... model , the interval probability is a simple mathematical function of the size of the note’s melodic interval and its position in relation to the range of the melody. In both models, this interval probability is then multiplied by the probability of the note’s scale degree to yield its actual...

..., melody TO A MUSICIAN OR LOVER OF MUSIC, THE IDEAthat lower voices in Western music move atslower rates than higher voices might seem intu- itively obvious. Some of the most memorable musical passages are virtuosic coloratura arias or dazzling violin cadenzas, both of which typically feature rapid passage...

...Lola L. Cuddy; Jacalyn M. Duffin; Sudeep S. Gill; Cassandra L. Brown; Ritu Sikka; Ashley D. Vanstone this research addressed the question: is musical memory preserved in dementia, specifically, dementia of the Alzheimer type (AD)? Six tests involving different aspects of melody and language...

...Tara Vongpaisal; Sandra E. Trehub; E. Glenn Schellenberg INTRINSIC PITCH PROCESSING LIMITATIONS OF cochlear implants constrain the perception of music, particularly melodies. We tested child implant users' ability to recognize music on the basis of incidental exposure.Using a closed-set task...

... that priming effects are not limited to pairs of tonal degrees including the tonic. This finding emphasizes the subtlety of nonexpert listeners' tonal knowledge. priming implicit knowledge nontonic events tonal stability melody Tonal Priming in Melodies 211 TONAL PRIMING BEYOND TONICS FRÉDÉRIC MARMEL...

...ANIRUDDH D. PATEL; MEREDITH WONG; JESSICA FOXTON; ALIETTE LOCHY; ISABELLE PERETZ TO WHAT EXTENT DO MUSIC and language share neural mechanisms for processing pitch patterns? Musical tone-deafness (amusia) provides important evidence on this question. Amusics have problems with musical melody...