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Where is the beat in that note? Effects of attack, duration, and frequency on the perceived timing of musical and quasi-musical sounds
- Source :
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 45(3):402-418
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- The perceptual center (P-center) of a sound is typically understood as the specific moment at which it is perceived to occur. Using matched sets of real and artificial musical sounds as stimuli, we probed the influence of attack (rise time), duration, and frequency (center frequency) on perceived P-center location and P-center variability. Two different methods to determine the P-centers were used: Clicks aligned in-phase with the target sounds via the method of adjustment, and tapping in synchrony with the target sounds. Attack and duration were the primary cues for P-center location and P-center variability; P-center variability was found to be a useful measure of P-center shape. Consistent interactions between attack and duration were also found. Probability density distributions for each stimulus display a systematic pattern of P-center shapes ranging from narrow peaks close to the onset of sounds with fast attack and short duration, to wider and flatter shapes indicating a range synchronization points for sounds with slow attack and long duration. The results support the conception of P-centers as not simple time points, but "beat bins" with characteristic shapes, and the shapes and locations of these beat bins are dependent upon both the stimulus and the synchronization task. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Computer science
Speech recognition
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musiikki
Beat (acoustics)
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Probability density function
Stimulus (physiology)
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Young Adult
Behavioral Neuroscience
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Perception
Humans
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music
Center frequency
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media_common
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Ranging
Middle Aged
Time perception
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Rise time
Time Perception
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Auditory Perception
Female
perceptual psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00961523
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....efecec20840f4ba4e994916f4f29ee0b