The influence of melodic context on pitch recognition judgment

Deutsch, Diana

doi:10.3758/bf03204849

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“…In a classic experiment, Deutsch (1970) showed that listeners’ memory for pitch was disrupted by interfering tones with random pitches, but not by random spoken digits (see also Semal et al, 1996). The strength of the interference effect is influenced by the musical relationships between the pitches of the target and interfering tones (e.g., Deutsch, 1973, 1978a, 1982; Deutsch & Roll, 1974), but not by their timbres (Semal & Demany, 1991, 1993). Taken together, these and other findings strongly suggest that musical pitch is stored separately from other perceptual features (see Deutsch, 2012).…”

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Percepts, not acoustic properties, are the units of auditory short-term memory.

Mathias

Kriegstein

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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For decades, researchers have sought to understand the organizing principles of auditory and visual short-term memory (STM). Previous work in audition has suggested that there are independent memory stores for different sound features, but the nature of the representations retained within these stores is currently unclear. Do they retain perceptual features, or do they instead retain representations of the sound's specific acoustic properties? In the present study we addressed this question by measuring listeners' abilities to keep one of three acoustic properties (interaural time difference [ITD], interaural level difference [ILD], or frequency) in memory when the target sound was followed by interfering sounds that varied randomly in one of the same properties. Critically, ITD and ILD evoked the same percept (spatial location), despite being acoustically different and having different physiological correlates, whereas frequency evoked a different percept (pitch). The results showed that listeners found it difficult to remember the percept of spatial location when the interfering tones varied either in ITD or ILD, but not when they varied in frequency. The study demonstrates that percepts are the units of auditory STM, and provides testable predictions for future neuroscientific work on both auditory and visual STM.

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Percepts, not acoustic properties, are the units of auditory short-term memory.

Mathias

Kriegstein

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…It was concluded that this misrecognition effect was based on the perceptual equivalence of the inverted intervals (see Section II). Deutsch (1982) performed an analogous experiment to study the effect of melodic relational context. Subjects compared the pitches of two tones that were each preceded by tones of lower pitch.…”

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The Processing of Pitch Combinations

Deutsch

1999

The Psychology of Music

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“…Although there is evidence for the role of feature-based interaction in pitch memory (e.g., Deutsch, 1978bDeutsch, , 1982Deutsch & Roll, 1974), support for the TMM account was recently provided by Mercer and McKeown (2010). Their participants were required to compare standard tones with comparison tones, varying in timbre, over a 4.7-sec interval.…”

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Updating and feature overwriting in short-term memory for timbre

Mercer

McKeown

2010

Attention, Perception & Psychophysics

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Previous research has demonstrated a potent, stimulus-specific form of interference in short-term auditory memory. This effect has been interpreted in terms of interitem confusion and grouping, but the present experiments suggested that interference might be a feature-specific phenomenon. Participants compared standard and comparison tones over a 10-sec interval and were required to determine whether they differed in timbre. A single interfering distractor tone was presented either 50 msec or 8 sec after the offset of the standard (Experiment 1) or 2 sec prior to its onset (Experiment 2). The distractor varied in the number of features it shared with the standard and comparison, and this proved critical, since performance on the task was greatly impaired when the distractor either consisted of novel, unshared features (Experiment 1) or contained the distinguishing feature of the comparison tone (Experiments 1 and 2). These findings were incompatible with earlier accounts of forgetting but were fully explicable by the recent timbre memory model, which associates interference in short-term auditory memory with an "updating" process and feature overwriting. These results suggest similarities with the mechanisms that underlie forgetting in verbal short-term memory.

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The influence of melodic context on pitch recognition judgment

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

Percepts, not acoustic properties, are the units of auditory short-term memory.

Percepts, not acoustic properties, are the units of auditory short-term memory.

The Processing of Pitch Combinations

Updating and feature overwriting in short-term memory for timbre

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