scholarly journals Dynamic melody recognition: Distinctiveness and the role of musical expertise

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 641-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freya Bailes
Keyword(s):  
Melody Recognition ◽  
Musical Expertise

scholarly journals The role of divided attention and expertise in melody recognition

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen A. Herff ◽  
Daniela Czernochowski
Keyword(s):  
Divided Attention ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Attentional Resource ◽  
Attention And Memory ◽  
Attention Condition ◽  
Monitoring Task ◽  
Melody Recognition ◽  
Musical Expertise

When attention is divided during memory encoding, performance tends to suffer. The nature of this performance decrement, however, is domain-dependent and often governed by domain-specific expertise. In this study, 111 participants with differing levels of musical expertise (professional musicians, amateur musicians, and non-musicians) were presented with novel melodies under full- or divided-attention conditions in a continuous melody-recognition task. As hypothesized, melody recognition was modulated by musical expertise, as greater expertise was associated with better performance. Recognition performance increased with every additional presentation of a target melody. The divided-attention condition required concurrently performing a non-music related digit-monitoring task while simultaneously listening to the melodies. Memory performance decreased universally in all groups in the divided-attention condition; however, intriguingly musicians also performed significantly better in the concurrent digit-monitoring task than non-musicians. Results provide insight into the role of expertise, attention, and memory in the musical domain, and are discussed in terms of attentional resource models. In light of resource models, an asymmetrical non-linear trade-off between two simultaneous tasks is proposed to explain the present findings.

scholarly journals A figural approach to the role of melodic contour in melody recognition

1984 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 477-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Dyson ◽  
Anthony J. Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Melody Recognition ◽  
Melodic Contour

scholarly journals Individual differences in granularity of the affective responses to music

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-408
Author(s):  
Joanna Kantor-Martynuska ◽  
Emmanuel Bigand
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
The Other ◽  
Number Of Clusters ◽  
Musical Expertise ◽  
Musical Excerpts ◽  
The Common

Abstract The main focus of the paper is the role of listeners’ emotion-relevant characteristics and musical expertise in the granularity of affective responses to music. Another objective of the study is to test the consistency of the granularity of affect that is perceived in music and/or experienced in response to it. In Experiment 1, 91 musicians and nonmusicians listened to musical excerpts and grouped them according to the similarity of the affects they experienced while listening. Finer grouping granularity was found in musicians and high rumination scorers. Male musicians with above-median scores in rumination produced a larger number of clusters than the other male participants. Experiment 2 that engaged 23 participants demonstrated moderate consistency with which listeners grouped affects that they perceived in music and affects they experienced while listening to music. The study suggests that affective responses to music are subject to individual differences in musical expertise and rumination. Affects perceived in music and felt in response to it seem to be categorized with reference to the common principles. However, the cues that are used in such instances of categorization seem to be different. The paper encourages further research on the importance of listeners’ personal characteristics for the affective responses to music.

The role of tone height, melodic contour, and tone chroma in melody recognition.

1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic W. Massaro ◽  
Howard J. Kallman ◽  
Janet L. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Melody Recognition ◽  
Melodic Contour

The Role of Diatonicism in the Abstraction and Representation of Contour and Interval Information

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric G. Freedman
Keyword(s):  
Retention Interval ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Melody Recognition ◽  
Melodic Contour ◽  
Contour Information ◽  
Information Recognition ◽  
Diatonic Scale ◽  
Longterm Memory

Previous research on melody recognition indicates that listeners can recognize contour information when melodies are retained for brief intervals and can recognize interval information of melodies held in longterm memory. However, past research has failed to control for the diatonicism and familiarity of the melodies. In three experiments, the relative contributions of contour and interval information during the abstraction of novel diatonic and nondiatonic sequences are examined. Listeners recognize the melodic contours of melodies held over an extended retention interval. Additionally, listeners use the diatonic context to recognize both the contour and interval information. In nondiatonic contexts, listeners rely predominantly on the contour information. In addition, musically experienced listeners can recognize both the contour and interval information, whereas musically inexperienced listeners rely predominantly on the contour information. Recognition of melodic contour remained relatively accurate during a 24-hr retention interval. Thus, the results indicate that the diatonic scale mediates the abstraction of interval information. Listeners seem to acquire a musical schema for diatonic melodies.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

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