1996
DOI: 10.1121/1.415580
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Directed attention and perception of frequency changes.

Abstract: What role does attention play in the perception of components within a melody? A paradigm used by Palmer and Holleran [Percept. Psychophys. 56(3), 301–312] provides a basis for addressing this question. Their study investigated different influences on the perception of pitch alterations in three-voiced musical passages, where subjects first learned a four-measure standard, then completed a same/different task. ‘‘Different’’ passages were constructed by altering the original standard, with a harmonically relate… Show more

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“…The conjecture that the asynchrony in the polyphonic compositions allows for greater segregation (or conversely, that homophony produces greater integration) of voices was further tested in Experiment 2, in which participants were required to detect changes occurring in the melody while ignoring changes occurring in the other voices. Although the musicians in this experiment could be considered only moderately trained (none were professional musicians and average training ϭ 8 years), the current pattern of results is quite consistent with that of Acker and Pastore (1996a), who used only highly trained musician (minimum of 10 years experience). It thus seems likely that increasing the level of musical training, while possibly increasing the overall level of performance, would not lead to any different conclusions.…”
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“…The conjecture that the asynchrony in the polyphonic compositions allows for greater segregation (or conversely, that homophony produces greater integration) of voices was further tested in Experiment 2, in which participants were required to detect changes occurring in the melody while ignoring changes occurring in the other voices. Although the musicians in this experiment could be considered only moderately trained (none were professional musicians and average training ϭ 8 years), the current pattern of results is quite consistent with that of Acker and Pastore (1996a), who used only highly trained musician (minimum of 10 years experience). It thus seems likely that increasing the level of musical training, while possibly increasing the overall level of performance, would not lead to any different conclusions.…”
Section: Dј Resultssupporting
confidence: 79%
“…Thus, the present experiments tested the generality of previous results by using a set of compositionally distinct stimuli and provided a comparison across level of training. If the null effect of compositional style observed in previous studies (Acker & Pastore, 1996a;Palmer & Holleran, 1994) resulted from a weak manipulation of primitive grouping variables, then, in the present experiment, similar effects of compositional style would be expected for both musicians and nonmusicians. That is, the results would be expected to be consistent with previous studies that have used decidedly nonmusical stimuli (e.g., Botte et al, 1997;Jones et al, 1995).…”
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confidence: 75%
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