Acuity of auditory images in pitch and time

Janata, Petr; Paroo, Kaivon

doi:10.3758/bf03193705

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“…One observation during the experiments was that singers tend to sing louder in the Masked condition, compensating for the deprived auditory feedback (the so-called Lombard effect, Lombard, 1911), which is likely to have made the auditory feedback inhibition ineffective. The fact that the Imagined condition has little bearing on intonation is in line with perceptual experiments which found little difference in pitch acuity between listening and imagining conditions (Janata and Paroo, 2006). In summary, the conditions had no significant effect on the parameters we tested.…”

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Intonation in unaccompanied singing: Accuracy, drift, and a model of reference pitch memory

Mauch

Frieler

Dixon

2014

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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This paper presents a study on intonation and intonation drift in unaccompanied singing and proposes a simple model of reference pitch memory that accounts for many of the effects observed. Singing experiments were conducted with 24 singers of varying ability under 3 conditions (Normal, Masked, Imagined ). Over the duration of a recording, approximately 50 seconds, a median absolute intonation drift of 11 cents was observed. While smaller than the median note error (19 cents), drift was significant in 22% of recordings. Drift magnitude did not correlate with other measures of singing accuracy, singing experience or with the presence of conditions tested. Furthermore, it is shown that neither a static intonation memory model nor a memoryless interval-based intonation model can account for the accuracy and drift behaviour observed. The proposed causal model provides a better explanation as it treats the reference pitch as a changing latent variable.

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Intonation in unaccompanied singing: Accuracy, drift, and a model of reference pitch memory

Mauch

Frieler

Dixon

2014

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…In a study by Janata and Paroo (2006), participants heard an ascending major scale and determined whether a final probe note was in tune (pitch task) or on time (time task). In an imagery condition, three or five notes of the scale were omitted and participants were asked to imagine these notes.…”

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Probing imagined tempo for music: Effects of motor engagement and musical experience

Jakubowski

Farrugia

2016

Psychology of Music

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Both musically trained and untrained adults can reproduce the tempo of familiar music with high precision. However, conflicting evidence exists as to how well representations of tempo are preserved within musical imagery. The present study investigated whether previous conflicting evidence might result from the use of different tasks to measure imagined tempo. Tempo judgments for familiar music were collected in a repeated-measures design using two imagined music tasks and one perceived music task. In one imagined music task participants tapped in time to the beat of the imagined music (Imagery (motor) task), while in the other they did not move in time with the music and instead adjusted a click track to the beat (Imagery (non-motor) task). Overall, performance was most accurate on the perceived music task, in which all musical cues were present. Performance on the Imagery (motor) task was also significantly more accurate than performance on the Imagery (non-motor) task. Training and active engagement with music positively predicted imagery task performance, whereas perceived music task performance was influenced by properties related to the song stimuli, such as familiarity and the original, recorded tempo. Results are discussed in relation to previous literature on auditory-motor interactions and musical expertise.

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“…First, we sought to replicate the effect of tonal knowledge on image acuity observed in Janata and Paroo, 2006. Tonal knowledge is an example of implicit long-term memory that likely derives from extensive exposure to the statistical regularities of Western tonal music ͑Krumhansl, 1990; Tillmann et al, 2000͒.…”

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“…The notes were synthesized in MATLAB from their fundamental frequency and the next seven higher harmonics as described in Janata and Paroo, 2006. A 5-ms linear ramp was applied to the envelope at the beginning and end of each note.…”

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Influences of multiple memory systems on auditory mental image acuity

Navarro-Cebrian

Janata

2010

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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The influence of different memory systems and associated attentional processes on the acuity of auditory images, formed for the purpose of making intonation judgments, was examined across three experiments using three different task types (cued-attention, imagery, and two-tone discrimination). In experiment 1 the influence of implicit long-term memory for musical scale structure was manipulated by varying the scale degree (leading tone versus tonic) of the probe note about which a judgment had to be made. In experiments 2 and 3 the ability of short-term absolute pitch knowledge to develop was manipulated by presenting blocks of trials in the same key or in seven different keys. The acuity of auditory images depended on all of these manipulations. Within individual listeners, thresholds in the two-tone discrimination and cued-attention conditions were closely related. In many listeners, cued-attention thresholds were similar to thresholds in the imagery condition, and depended on the amount of training individual listeners had in playing a musical instrument. The results indicate that mental images formed at a sensory/cognitive interface for the purpose of making perceptual decisions are highly malleable.

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Acuity of auditory images in pitch and time

Cited by 84 publications

References 35 publications

Intonation in unaccompanied singing: Accuracy, drift, and a model of reference pitch memory

Intonation in unaccompanied singing: Accuracy, drift, and a model of reference pitch memory

Probing imagined tempo for music: Effects of motor engagement and musical experience

Influences of multiple memory systems on auditory mental image acuity

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