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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"music perception"”.
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Understanding Schenkerian Analysis from the Perspective of Music Perception and Cognition
… the theory. It evaluates data dealing with musical instruction’s effect on perception. From this review, reasonable evidence for the perceptual reality of Schenkerian-style structural levels is found to exist. This thesis asserts that the perception of Schenkerian analytical structures is …
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MUSIC TO OUR EYES: ASSESSING THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE FOR MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION IN MUSIC PERCEPTION
… Effect” (McGurk & McDonald, 1976) in speech perception, some researchers (e.g. Liberman & Mattingly, 1985) have argued that humans uniquely interpret auditory and visual (motor) speech signals as a single intended audiovisual articulatory gesture, and that such multisensory integration is …
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The construction and evaluation of statistical models of melodic structure in music perception and composition
… approach to developing cognitive models of music perception and composition is to construct systems of symbolic rules and constraints on the basis of extensive music-theoretic and music-analytic knowledge. The thesis proposed in this dissertation is that statistical models which acquire …
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A NIRS Study of Violinists and Pianists Employing Motor and Music Imageries to Assess Neural Differences in Music Perception
<p>Do musicians imagine movements differently? Are instrument-specific movements represented differently in the brain? The current study explores the perceptual differences in imagining music and movements. While attached to a near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) device, violinists and pianists of …
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It’s Not Simple: Brain Signal Complexity as an Index of Neural Information Processing Described via Music Perception, Complexity and Reward
… signal complexity is higher in adult musicians compared to non-musicians. The difference in complexity between groups was largest in a music note perception task, which also showed the largest behavioural difference between groups. Study 2 extends this approach to a longitudinal study …
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Music-listening systems
When human listeners are confronted with musical sounds, they rapidly and automatically orient themselves in the music. Even musically untrained listeners have an exceptional ability to make rapid judgments about music from very short examples, such as determining the music's style, performer, …
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Liminality as a Framework for Composition: Rhythmic Thresholds, Spectral Harmonies and Afrological Improvisation
… in which involvement with both French spectral music and Afrological forms of improvisation has informed my current work as a composer. I present a brief overview of the major concerns and preoccupations of both musics as well as an account of the overlapping histories of spectral music and …
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A View from Within: Timbre as an Analytical Tool in Contemporary Viola Music
<p>Timbre is an elusive musical parameter that musicians, physicists, and cognitive scientists have been grappling with for centuries. While timbre can roughly be defined as an auditory attribute that distinguishes one tone color from another, this definition does not capture the complexities of …
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Effects of Hearing Experience, Music Training and Spectral-Temporal Processing on Music and Speech Perception in Adult Cochlear Implant Users
… successful hearing device for improving speech perception in quiet environments for individuals with severe-to-profound hearing loss. However, many CI users continue to face challenges in appreciating and enjoying music (particularly due to poor melody perception) and they also struggle to …
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Timbre perception and object separation with normal and impaired hearing
… by a sensorineural hearing loss not only affects music perception, but may also influence object recognition in general. In order to quantify differences in object segregation and timbre discrimination between normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners with a sensorineural hearing loss, a new …
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Empirical constraints on the evolutionary origins of music
The origins and adaptive significance of music, long an elusive target, are now active topics of empirical study. I argue that empirical results can constrain discussions of the adaptive significance of music by testing whether various musical traits are innate, uniquely human, and specific to …
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Statistics in Historical Musicology
… disciplines and are used extensively in music analysis, music perception, and performance studies. However, statisticians have largely ignored the many music catalogues, databases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, lists and other datasets compiled by institutions and individuals over the last …
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Pitch representations in the auditory nerve : two concurrent complex tones
… scene analysis and also play a major role in music perception. To investigate the neural codes underlying these perceptual abilities, we recorded from single fibers in the cat auditory nerve in response to two concurrent harmonic complex tones with missing fundamentals and equal-amplitude …
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Ensemble Within and Across Musical Instruments
… This "ensemble coding" or summary statistical perception has been widely documented for the visual system, and has recently been found to also hold for sound perception. For example, when a sequence of tones is played, observers are poor at remembering the specific tones while good at …
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Current steering and electrode spanning with partial tripolar stimulation mode in cochlear implants
… tasks such as speech recognition in noise and music perception, possibly due to the small number of implanted electrodes and the large current spread of electric stimulation. Although current spread may be reduced using partial tripolar (pTP) stimulation mode, the number of electrodes may not …
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Evoked emotional responses in the performance practices of selected Yorùbá dùndún ensembles
… the communication of emotion through dùndún music of the Yorùbá ethnic group of Nigeria. The two-pronged focus is on (a) the strategies that dùndún performers employ to potentially arouse emotions in their listeners, and (b) the responses elicited in the listeners. The study is situated in …
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Timbre perception of cultural insiders : a case study with Javanese gamelan instruments
… to combine methodologies from the fields of ethnomusicology and psychoacoustics to address fundamental questions concerning music perception. Ethnomusicology emphasizes cultural context when examining the different ways musical sounds are organized. Psychoacoustics explores the relationships …
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Listeners' perceptual and emotional responses to tonal and atonal music
… listeners' responses to tonal and atonal music through a combined model that encompasses music perception theories such as the cue abstraction mechanism, and both listener- and stimulus-based models of emotional responses to music. Aspects of this model relating to listener features and …
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Modelling metrical flux: an adaptive frequency neural network for expressive rhythmic perception and prediction
… and cognitive process by which humans listen to music and perceive a steady pulse. Computationally modelling beat induction is important for many Music Information Retrieval (MIR) methods and is in general an open problem, especially when processing expressive timing, e.g. tempo changes or …
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The History and Perception of Music Education in Kuwait
… examination of the history and development of music education in Kuwait. The history of the four teacher-training institutions and music education in schools are discussed. That includes the history of the Music General Supervision Department and its music activities. Additionally, the study …
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