Influence of global structure on musical target detection and recognition

Category

Journal Article

Authors

Tillmann, B., Bigand, E.

Year

1998

Title

Influence of global structure on musical target detection and recognition

Journal / book / conference

International Journal of Psychology

Abstract

The present study adapted a paradigm used in visual perception by Biederman, Glass, and Stacy (1973) and analyzed the influence of a coherent global context on the detection and recognition of musical target excerpts. Global coherence was modified by segmenting minuets into chunks of four, two, or one bar. These chunks were either reordered (Experiments 1, 3, 4, 5) or transposed to different keys (Experiment 2). The results indicate that target detection is influenced only by a reorganization on a very local level (i.e. chunks of one bar). Context incoherence did not influence the recognition of the real targets, but rendered the rejection of wrong target excerpts (foils) more difficult. The present findings revealed only a weak effect of global context on target identification and only for extremely modified structures.

Issue

2

Volume

33

Pages

107-122

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