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Behavioral And Neural Correlates Of Perceived And Imagined Musical Timbre, Andrea R. Halpern, Robert J. Zattore, Marc Bouffard, Jennifer A. Johnson
Behavioral And Neural Correlates Of Perceived And Imagined Musical Timbre, Andrea R. Halpern, Robert J. Zattore, Marc Bouffard, Jennifer A. Johnson
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The generality of findings implicating secondary auditory areas in auditory imagery was tested by using a timbre imagery task with fMRI. Another aim was to test whether activity in supplementary motor area (SMA) seen in prior studies might have been related to subvocalization. Participants with moderate musical background were scanned while making similarity judgments about the timbre of heard or imagined musical instrument sounds. The critical control condition was a visual imagery task. The pattern of judgments in perceived and imagined conditions was similar, suggesting that perception and imagery access similar cognitive representations of timbre. As expected, judgments of heard …
Effects Of Training And Melodic Features On Mode Perception, Amber M. Leaver, Andrea R. Halpern
Effects Of Training And Melodic Features On Mode Perception, Amber M. Leaver, Andrea R. Halpern
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The two modes most widely used in Western music today convey opposite moods—a distinction that nonmusicians and even young children are able to make. However, the current studies provide evidence that, despite a strong link between mode and affect, mode perception is problematic. Nonmusicians found mode discrimination to be harder than discrimination of other melodic features, and they were not able to accurately classify major and minor melodies with these labels. Although nonmusicians were able to classify major and minor melodies using affective labels, they performed at chance in mode discrimination. Training, in the form of short lessons given to …