The psychological relevance of the musicians' concept of tonality was tested in ... more The psychological relevance of the musicians' concept of tonality was tested in the context of the music of JS Bach. Musically trained listeners were instructed to sing the musical scale that first came to mind immediately after hearing short excerpts from Preludes of JS Bach'sThe Well-Tempered Clavier. For each Prelude, the tonic (first note) and the mode (major or minor) of the scale produced were compared to the tonic and mode designated by Bach. Results indicated that listeners (1) often established the designated tonic and mode ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1994
Eighteen musicians and nine nonmusicians judged the direction of tritone intervals between pairs ... more Eighteen musicians and nine nonmusicians judged the direction of tritone intervals between pairs of octave‐complex (Shepard) tones. The tones in each pair had the same spectral envelope centered on either C or F♯ in one of three octaves. Nine of the musicians sang the intervals on one‐half of the trial blocks instead of making the usual up/down judgments. Monte Carlo analysis revealed that 83% of the musicians and 33% of the nonmusicians showed a significant direction bias for regions of the chroma circle. This corroborates the ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990
The Federation of Acoustical Societies of Europe (FASE) has published an updated (as of Winter 19... more The Federation of Acoustical Societies of Europe (FASE) has published an updated (as of Winter 1989) listing of Universities and other countries that teach courses in acoustics or are engaged in acoustics research. The compilation includes a listing of the major areas and the persons who are in charge of the various programs. Many of the institutions also indicate the possibilities for guest researchers from other countries. The countries included in the listing are Belgium, France, Romania, who list their activities in French, Czechoslovakia, ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990
Forty listeners, differing in level of musical experience, indicated the serial order of eight to... more Forty listeners, differing in level of musical experience, indicated the serial order of eight tones in 32 sequences representing all combinations of four tone sets or scales (major, minor, chromatic, and three‐semitone spacing) and eight serial orders. Responses were produced with a mouse, which controlled the vertical height (representing pitch height) of a series of eight sliders (representing the eight temporal positions in the sequence) on a computer screen. Response accuracy was higher for tone sets with wider frequency ...
The journal invites proposals for papers in these special areas of a research or theoretical natu... more The journal invites proposals for papers in these special areas of a research or theoretical nature. The journal also encourages the submission of unsolicited manuscripts on topics which fall within the general scope of Psychomusicology, for publication in alternate issues from the special topic issues.
Ce numéro porte sur le bruit industriel. Nous publions un rapport sur la réduction du bruit dans ... more Ce numéro porte sur le bruit industriel. Nous publions un rapport sur la réduction du bruit dans un local industriel, incluant l'application de modèles prédictifs. Par ailleurs, nous reproduisons, du Noise/News International, le rapport du groupe de travail l-INCE sur les limites supérieures de niveaux de bruit admissibles dans les milieux de travail. Deux membres de l'ACA, Tony Embleton et Edgar Shaw, font partie de ce groupe de travail. Le comité de direction de l'ACA - représentant l'ACA, un des membres de l-INCE - a été appelé à voter sur la ...
Adolescents seem to soak up popular music with the ease of children acquiring language. The lingu... more Adolescents seem to soak up popular music with the ease of children acquiring language. The linguistic ability has long been associated with an early sensitive period of plasticity for language acquisition. Here we raise the possibility of a sensitive period for music acquisition, ...
Psychomusicology: A Journal of Research in Music Cognition, 2002
... an adult music education standpoint. A second empirical paper by Annabel Cohen, Betty Bailey,... more ... an adult music education standpoint. A second empirical paper by Annabel Cohen, Betty Bailey, and Thorny Nilsson, focuses on the significance of music to older people regardless of their mental status. This is followed by Alf ...
Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1996
We examined two models that quantified the effects of tonality on accuracy and reaction time in a... more We examined two models that quantified the effects of tonality on accuracy and reaction time in an intervening-tone pitch-comparison task. In each of 16 task conditions (standard tone-interpolated sequence-test tone, abbreviated as S-seq-T), the S and T tones, C₄ and/or C# ₄, were separated by a three-tone sequence that was a random arrangement of one of the four triads, or. Both models were based on the tonal hierarchy (Krumhansl, 1990a; Krumhansl & Shepard, 1979) and the key-finding algorithm (Krumhansl & Schmuckler, ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008
A key issue in development of speech perception and production concerns the possible existence of... more A key issue in development of speech perception and production concerns the possible existence of an early sensitive period that facilitates language acquisition. Spoken language acquisition entails representation of grammatical sequences of phonemes. In a two‐phase experiment, 120 participants in three age groups (pre‐adolescents, adolescents, young adults) were presented with 64 words, 16 each of English, English pronounceable non‐words, Spanish, and Mandarin. The task was to determine if the word was English. All age ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2012
AIRS-TEST, an online system supporting a major collaborative research initiative, Advancing Inter... more AIRS-TEST, an online system supporting a major collaborative research initiative, Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS), was developed. AIRS-TEST administers a sequence of interactive tests and organizes the results for analysis. The tests can present text and audiovisual information to prompt the participant's response (eg, key presses, mouse clicks, touch-screen or audiovideo input). Researchers can design and create a sequence of related tests with auditory and/or visual stimuli via a management ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2001
In an experiment analogous to that of Shepard which showed circularity in judgments of relative p... more In an experiment analogous to that of Shepard which showed circularity in judgments of relative pitch of pairs of octave‐complex tones [Shepard, J. Acoust. Soc. Am.[bold 36], 2346–2353 (1964)], 40 listeners, centered in a sound‐attenuated room, judged the apparent direction (clockwise, or counterclockwise) of 396 pairs of successive complex tones emanating from all possible pairs of 12 speakers spaced at 30‐degree intervals on an imaginary circumference. Judgments were influenced by speaker proxim‐ity and in ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2002
Abstract Cohen, Lamothe, Fleming, MacIsaac, and Lamoureux [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2460 (2001)] ... more Abstract Cohen, Lamothe, Fleming, MacIsaac, and Lamoureux [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2460 (2001)] reported that proximity governed circular direction judgments (clockwise/counterclockwise) of two successive tones emanating from all pairs of 12 speakers located at 30-degree intervals around a listeners' head (cranium). Many listeners appeared to experience systematic front-back confusion. Diametrically opposed locations (180-degrees-theoretically ambiguous direction) produced a direction bias pattern resembling Deutsch's ...
Abstract Performance on a direct distance estimation task in a large, complex environment was stu... more Abstract Performance on a direct distance estimation task in a large, complex environment was studied as a function of variation in some members of the set of test locations. Features of the multidimensional scaling solutions-along with effects on the imagery that subjects reported experiencing while engaged in the spatial task-support the notion that a working representation is constructed for the solution of a spatial problem. It is hypothesized that this construction draws selectively upon various mental representations of the environment ...
The article draws attention to the value of objective measurement of both human responses and sou... more The article draws attention to the value of objective measurement of both human responses and soundtracks for validating conjectures about the role of film music. Based on empirical research on film music as well as ideas from film theory and cognitive science, the author’s Congruence-Association Model with Working Narrative (CAM-WN) is introduced as a means for organizing ideas about the role of music in film. The application of CAM-WN to the problem of unattended film music is reviewed, and the notion of subjective silence is examined in the context of spectrographic representation of film music. While empirical research with human participants is also encouraged, the complexity of the enterprise is highlighted by a list of questions to consider in advance. Interdisciplinary collaboration is suggested as a means for overcoming the complexity of film-music behavioral research, though it is not a panacea. The Lund University Film Studies Department offers an important example in this direction.
Abstract The new Editor of Psychomusicology, Annabel J. Cohen, introduces the new Associate Edito... more Abstract The new Editor of Psychomusicology, Annabel J. Cohen, introduces the new Associate Editorial Board (W. Jay Dowling, Bruno H. Repp, and Lauren Stewart) and describes their joint task as one of privileged responsibility to the present, past, and future members of the music-psychology research community.
The psychological relevance of the musicians' concept of tonality was tested in ... more The psychological relevance of the musicians' concept of tonality was tested in the context of the music of JS Bach. Musically trained listeners were instructed to sing the musical scale that first came to mind immediately after hearing short excerpts from Preludes of JS Bach'sThe Well-Tempered Clavier. For each Prelude, the tonic (first note) and the mode (major or minor) of the scale produced were compared to the tonic and mode designated by Bach. Results indicated that listeners (1) often established the designated tonic and mode ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1994
Eighteen musicians and nine nonmusicians judged the direction of tritone intervals between pairs ... more Eighteen musicians and nine nonmusicians judged the direction of tritone intervals between pairs of octave‐complex (Shepard) tones. The tones in each pair had the same spectral envelope centered on either C or F♯ in one of three octaves. Nine of the musicians sang the intervals on one‐half of the trial blocks instead of making the usual up/down judgments. Monte Carlo analysis revealed that 83% of the musicians and 33% of the nonmusicians showed a significant direction bias for regions of the chroma circle. This corroborates the ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990
The Federation of Acoustical Societies of Europe (FASE) has published an updated (as of Winter 19... more The Federation of Acoustical Societies of Europe (FASE) has published an updated (as of Winter 1989) listing of Universities and other countries that teach courses in acoustics or are engaged in acoustics research. The compilation includes a listing of the major areas and the persons who are in charge of the various programs. Many of the institutions also indicate the possibilities for guest researchers from other countries. The countries included in the listing are Belgium, France, Romania, who list their activities in French, Czechoslovakia, ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990
Forty listeners, differing in level of musical experience, indicated the serial order of eight to... more Forty listeners, differing in level of musical experience, indicated the serial order of eight tones in 32 sequences representing all combinations of four tone sets or scales (major, minor, chromatic, and three‐semitone spacing) and eight serial orders. Responses were produced with a mouse, which controlled the vertical height (representing pitch height) of a series of eight sliders (representing the eight temporal positions in the sequence) on a computer screen. Response accuracy was higher for tone sets with wider frequency ...
The journal invites proposals for papers in these special areas of a research or theoretical natu... more The journal invites proposals for papers in these special areas of a research or theoretical nature. The journal also encourages the submission of unsolicited manuscripts on topics which fall within the general scope of Psychomusicology, for publication in alternate issues from the special topic issues.
Ce numéro porte sur le bruit industriel. Nous publions un rapport sur la réduction du bruit dans ... more Ce numéro porte sur le bruit industriel. Nous publions un rapport sur la réduction du bruit dans un local industriel, incluant l'application de modèles prédictifs. Par ailleurs, nous reproduisons, du Noise/News International, le rapport du groupe de travail l-INCE sur les limites supérieures de niveaux de bruit admissibles dans les milieux de travail. Deux membres de l'ACA, Tony Embleton et Edgar Shaw, font partie de ce groupe de travail. Le comité de direction de l'ACA - représentant l'ACA, un des membres de l-INCE - a été appelé à voter sur la ...
Adolescents seem to soak up popular music with the ease of children acquiring language. The lingu... more Adolescents seem to soak up popular music with the ease of children acquiring language. The linguistic ability has long been associated with an early sensitive period of plasticity for language acquisition. Here we raise the possibility of a sensitive period for music acquisition, ...
Psychomusicology: A Journal of Research in Music Cognition, 2002
... an adult music education standpoint. A second empirical paper by Annabel Cohen, Betty Bailey,... more ... an adult music education standpoint. A second empirical paper by Annabel Cohen, Betty Bailey, and Thorny Nilsson, focuses on the significance of music to older people regardless of their mental status. This is followed by Alf ...
Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1996
We examined two models that quantified the effects of tonality on accuracy and reaction time in a... more We examined two models that quantified the effects of tonality on accuracy and reaction time in an intervening-tone pitch-comparison task. In each of 16 task conditions (standard tone-interpolated sequence-test tone, abbreviated as S-seq-T), the S and T tones, C₄ and/or C# ₄, were separated by a three-tone sequence that was a random arrangement of one of the four triads, or. Both models were based on the tonal hierarchy (Krumhansl, 1990a; Krumhansl & Shepard, 1979) and the key-finding algorithm (Krumhansl & Schmuckler, ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008
A key issue in development of speech perception and production concerns the possible existence of... more A key issue in development of speech perception and production concerns the possible existence of an early sensitive period that facilitates language acquisition. Spoken language acquisition entails representation of grammatical sequences of phonemes. In a two‐phase experiment, 120 participants in three age groups (pre‐adolescents, adolescents, young adults) were presented with 64 words, 16 each of English, English pronounceable non‐words, Spanish, and Mandarin. The task was to determine if the word was English. All age ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2012
AIRS-TEST, an online system supporting a major collaborative research initiative, Advancing Inter... more AIRS-TEST, an online system supporting a major collaborative research initiative, Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS), was developed. AIRS-TEST administers a sequence of interactive tests and organizes the results for analysis. The tests can present text and audiovisual information to prompt the participant's response (eg, key presses, mouse clicks, touch-screen or audiovideo input). Researchers can design and create a sequence of related tests with auditory and/or visual stimuli via a management ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2001
In an experiment analogous to that of Shepard which showed circularity in judgments of relative p... more In an experiment analogous to that of Shepard which showed circularity in judgments of relative pitch of pairs of octave‐complex tones [Shepard, J. Acoust. Soc. Am.[bold 36], 2346–2353 (1964)], 40 listeners, centered in a sound‐attenuated room, judged the apparent direction (clockwise, or counterclockwise) of 396 pairs of successive complex tones emanating from all possible pairs of 12 speakers spaced at 30‐degree intervals on an imaginary circumference. Judgments were influenced by speaker proxim‐ity and in ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2002
Abstract Cohen, Lamothe, Fleming, MacIsaac, and Lamoureux [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2460 (2001)] ... more Abstract Cohen, Lamothe, Fleming, MacIsaac, and Lamoureux [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2460 (2001)] reported that proximity governed circular direction judgments (clockwise/counterclockwise) of two successive tones emanating from all pairs of 12 speakers located at 30-degree intervals around a listeners' head (cranium). Many listeners appeared to experience systematic front-back confusion. Diametrically opposed locations (180-degrees-theoretically ambiguous direction) produced a direction bias pattern resembling Deutsch's ...
Abstract Performance on a direct distance estimation task in a large, complex environment was stu... more Abstract Performance on a direct distance estimation task in a large, complex environment was studied as a function of variation in some members of the set of test locations. Features of the multidimensional scaling solutions-along with effects on the imagery that subjects reported experiencing while engaged in the spatial task-support the notion that a working representation is constructed for the solution of a spatial problem. It is hypothesized that this construction draws selectively upon various mental representations of the environment ...
The article draws attention to the value of objective measurement of both human responses and sou... more The article draws attention to the value of objective measurement of both human responses and soundtracks for validating conjectures about the role of film music. Based on empirical research on film music as well as ideas from film theory and cognitive science, the author’s Congruence-Association Model with Working Narrative (CAM-WN) is introduced as a means for organizing ideas about the role of music in film. The application of CAM-WN to the problem of unattended film music is reviewed, and the notion of subjective silence is examined in the context of spectrographic representation of film music. While empirical research with human participants is also encouraged, the complexity of the enterprise is highlighted by a list of questions to consider in advance. Interdisciplinary collaboration is suggested as a means for overcoming the complexity of film-music behavioral research, though it is not a panacea. The Lund University Film Studies Department offers an important example in this direction.
Abstract The new Editor of Psychomusicology, Annabel J. Cohen, introduces the new Associate Edito... more Abstract The new Editor of Psychomusicology, Annabel J. Cohen, introduces the new Associate Editorial Board (W. Jay Dowling, Bruno H. Repp, and Lauren Stewart) and describes their joint task as one of privileged responsibility to the present, past, and future members of the music-psychology research community.
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theory and cognitive science, the author’s Congruence-Association Model with Working Narrative (CAM-WN) is introduced as a means for organizing ideas about the role of music in film. The application of CAM-WN to the problem of
unattended film music is reviewed, and the notion of subjective silence is examined in the context of spectrographic representation of film music. While empirical research with human participants is also encouraged, the complexity of the enterprise is highlighted by a list of questions to consider in advance. Interdisciplinary collaboration is suggested as a means for overcoming the complexity of film-music
behavioral research, though it is not a panacea. The Lund University Film Studies Department offers an important example in this direction.
theory and cognitive science, the author’s Congruence-Association Model with Working Narrative (CAM-WN) is introduced as a means for organizing ideas about the role of music in film. The application of CAM-WN to the problem of
unattended film music is reviewed, and the notion of subjective silence is examined in the context of spectrographic representation of film music. While empirical research with human participants is also encouraged, the complexity of the enterprise is highlighted by a list of questions to consider in advance. Interdisciplinary collaboration is suggested as a means for overcoming the complexity of film-music
behavioral research, though it is not a panacea. The Lund University Film Studies Department offers an important example in this direction.