Tone Sequences with Conflicting Fundamental Pitch and Timbre Changes Are Heard Differently by Musicians and Nonmusicians

Autor/inn/en	Seither-Preisler, Annemarie; Johnson, Linda; Krumbholz, Katrin; Nobbe, Andrea; Patterson, Roy; Seither, Stefan; Lutkenhoner, Bernd
Titel	Tone Sequences with Conflicting Fundamental Pitch and Timbre Changes Are Heard Differently by Musicians and Nonmusicians
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33 (2007) 3, S.743-751 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
Schlagwörter	Musicians; Intervals; Auditory Stimuli; Auditory Perception; Music Education; Classification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musiker; Auditive Stimulation; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Musikerziehung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	An Auditory Ambiguity Test (AAT) was taken twice by nonmusicians, musical amateurs, and professional musicians. The AAT comprised different tone pairs, presented in both within-pair orders, in which overtone spectra rising in pitch were associated with missing fundamental frequencies (F0) falling in pitch, and vice versa. The F0 interval ranged from 2 to 9 semitones. The participants were instructed to decide whether the perceived pitch went up or down; no information was provided on the ambiguity of the stimuli. The majority of professionals classified the pitch changes according to F0, even at the smallest interval. By contrast, most nonmusicians classified according to the overtone spectra, except in the case of the largest interval. Amateurs ranged in between. A plausible explanation for the systematic group differences is that musical practice systematically shifted the perceptual focus from spectral toward missing-F0 pitch, although alternative explanations such as different genetic dispositions of musicians and nonmusicians cannot be ruled out. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10