Listeners perceive complex pitch-temporal structure in melodies.
In typical Western music, important pitches occur disproportionately often on important beats, referred to as the tonal-metric hierarchy (Prince & Schmuckler, 2014, Music Perception, 31, 254–270). We tested whether listeners are sensitive to this alignment of pitch and temporal structure. In Experim...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 526 - 541 |
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