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Hearing In The Mind's Ear: A Pet Investigation Of Musical Imagery And Perception, Robert J. Zatorre, Andrea R. Halpern, David W. Perry, Ernst Meyer, Alan C. Evans
Hearing In The Mind's Ear: A Pet Investigation Of Musical Imagery And Perception, Robert J. Zatorre, Andrea R. Halpern, David W. Perry, Ernst Meyer, Alan C. Evans
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Neuropsychological studies have suggested that imagery processes may be mediated by neuronal mechanisms similar to those used in perception. To test this hypothesis, and to explore the neural basis for song imagery, 12 normal subjects were scanned using the water bolus method to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF) during the performance of three tasks. In the control condition subjects saw pairs of words on each trial and judged which word was longer. In the perceptual condition subjects also viewed pairs of words, this time drawn from a familiar song; simultaneously they heard the corresponding song, and their task was to …
The Effects Of Aging And Musical Experience On The Representation Of Tonal Hierarchies, Andrea R. Halpern, Seyeul Kwak, James C. Bartlett, W. Jay Dowling
The Effects Of Aging And Musical Experience On The Representation Of Tonal Hierarchies, Andrea R. Halpern, Seyeul Kwak, James C. Bartlett, W. Jay Dowling
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Two experiments explored the representation of the tonal hierarchy in Western music among older (aged 60 to 80) and younger (aged 15 to 22) musicians and nonmusicians. A probe tone technique was used: 4 notes from the major triad were presented, followed by 1 note chosen from the 12 notes of the chromatic scale. Whereas musicians had a better sense of the tonal hierarchy than nonmusicians, older adults were no worse than younger adults in differentiating the notes according to musical principles. However, older adults were more prone than younger adults to classify the notes by frequency proximity (pitch height) …