Vowel content influences relative pitch perception in vocal melodies: A comparison of models based on brightness vs. intrinsic pitch of vowels

2018 ◽  
Vol 144 (3) ◽  
pp. 1762-1762
Author(s):  
Frank A. Russo ◽  
Dominique Vuvan
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Perception ◽  
Relative Pitch

scholarly journals Vowel Content Influences Relative Pitch Perception in Vocal Melodies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Russo ◽  
Dominique T Vuvan ◽  
William Forde Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Response Times ◽  
Pitch Perception ◽  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Relative Pitch ◽  
Interval Size ◽  
Final Note

Note-to-note changes in brightness are able to influence the perception of interval size. Changes that are congruent with pitch tend to expand interval size, whereas changes that are incongruent tend to contract. In the case of singing, brightness of notes can vary as a function of vowel content. In the present study, we investigated whether note-to-note changes in brightness arising from vowel content influence perception of relative pitch. In Experiment 1, three-note sequences were synthesized so that they varied with regard to the brightness of vowels from note to note. As expected, brightness influenced judgments of interval size. Changes in brightness that were congruent with changes in pitch led to an expansion of perceived interval size. A follow-up experiment confirmed that the results of Experiment 1 were not due to pitch distortions. In Experiment 2, the final note of three-note sequences was removed, and participants were asked to make speeded judgments of the pitch contour. An analysis of response times revealed that brightness of vowels influenced contour judgments. Changes in brightness that were congruent with changes in pitch led to faster response times than did incongruent changes. These findings show that the brightness of vowels yields an extra-pitch influence on the perception of relative pitch in song.

scholarly journals Vowel Content Influences Relative Pitch Perception in Vocal Melodies

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank A. Russo ◽  
Dominique T. Vuvan ◽  
William Forde Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Response Times ◽  
Pitch Perception ◽  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Relative Pitch ◽  
Interval Size ◽  
Final Note

Note-to-note changes in brightness are able to influence the perception of interval size. Changes that are congruent with pitch tend to expand interval size, whereas changes that are incongruent tend to contract. In the case of singing, brightness of notes can vary as a function of vowel content. In the present study, we investigated whether note-to-note changes in brightness arising from vowel content influence perception of relative pitch. In Experiment 1, three-note sequences were synthesized so that they varied with regard to the brightness of vowels from note to note. As expected, brightness influenced judgments of interval size. Changes in brightness that were congruent with changes in pitch led to an expansion of perceived interval size. A follow-up experiment confirmed that the results of Experiment 1 were not due to pitch distortions. In Experiment 2, the final note of three-note sequences was removed, and participants were asked to make speeded judgments of the pitch contour. An analysis of response times revealed that brightness of vowels influenced contour judgments. Changes in brightness that were congruent with changes in pitch led to faster response times than did incongruent changes. These findings show that the brightness of vowels yields an extra-pitch influence on the perception of relative pitch in song.

scholarly journals Neural patterns reveal single-trial information on absolute pitch and relative pitch perception

NeuroImage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 132-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Leipold ◽  
Marielle Greber ◽  
Silvano Sele ◽  
Lutz Jäncke
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Pitch ◽  
Pitch Perception ◽  
Single Trial ◽  
Relative Pitch

scholarly journals Absolute and relative pitch perception by a bottlenose dolphin (T.truncatus)

1992 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 2423-2423
Author(s):  
James V. Ralston ◽  
Kathryn F. Gage ◽  
Jeffrey G. Harris ◽  
Sean P. Brooks ◽  
Louis M. Herman
Keyword(s):  
Bottlenose Dolphin ◽  
Pitch Perception ◽  
Relative Pitch

scholarly journals Neural patterns reveal single-trial information on absolute pitch and relative pitch perception

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Leipold ◽  
Marielle Greber ◽  
Silvano Sele ◽  
Lutz Jäncke
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Pitch ◽  
Pitch Perception ◽  
Single Trial ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Pitch Processing ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Relative Pitch ◽  
Perception Time ◽  
Early Processing ◽  
Beta Frequency

AbstractPitch is a fundamental attribute of sounds and yet is not perceived equally by all humans. Absolute pitch (AP) musicians perceive, recognize, and name pitches in absolute terms, whereas relative pitch (RP) musicians, representing the large majority of musicians, perceive pitches in relation to other pitches. In this study, we used electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the neural representations underlying tone listening and tone labeling in a large sample of musicians (n = 105). Participants performed a pitch processing task with a listening and a labeling condition during EEG acquisition. Using a brain-decoding framework, we tested a prediction derived from both theoretical and empirical accounts of AP, namely that the representational similarity of listening and labeling is higher in AP musicians than in RP musicians. Consistent with the prediction, time-resolved single-trial EEG decoding revealed a higher representational similarity in AP musicians during late stages of pitch perception. Time-frequency-resolved EEG decoding further showed that the higher representational similarity was present in oscillations in the theta and beta frequency bands. Supplemental univariate analyses were less sensitive in detecting subtle group differences in the frequency domain. Taken together, the results suggest differences between AP and RP musicians in late pitch processing stages associated with cognition, rather than in early processing stages associated with perception.

Acquiring Relative Pitch Perception as a Function of Age

1979 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-254
Author(s):  
Emmeline M. Litke ◽  
Clifford C. Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Perception ◽  
Relative Pitch
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