Scale and serial order information in melodic perception: independence or interindependence?

Authors

  • A.J. Cohen Dept. of Psychol., Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada
  • B. Frankland Dept. of Psychol., Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada

Keywords:

hearing, melodic perception, temporal order, eight-note scales, alphabets, serial orders, ordinal position errors, contour errors, chromatic alphabet, irregular sequential structures

Abstract

Listeners indicated the temporal order of eight tones presented in 36 different sequences representing all combinations of four eight-note scales or alphabets (chromatic, major, minor, and augmented) and nine serial orders (or varying complexity). Accuracy, as measured by ordinal position errors and by contour errors, was poorest for the chromatic alphabet and for the most irregular sequential structures. Alphabetic effects were partially accounted for by familiarity and discriminability and serial order effects were partially accounted for by rule regularity. Effects of alphabet structure and sequential structure were, however, not independent: certain combinations of alphabets and sequential orders led to error patterns that were not consistent with the main effects. The question remains whether such deviations reflect interdependent scale and order processes

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Published

1990-10-01

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Cohen A, Frankland B. Scale and serial order information in melodic perception: independence or interindependence?. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 1990 Oct. 1 [cited 2024 Nov. 21];18(4):3-10. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/624

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 4 (1990)

Section

Technical Articles

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