What is a melody? On the relationship between pitch and brightness of timbre

Previous studies showed that the perceptual processing of sound sequences is more efficient when the sounds vary in pitch than when they vary in loudness. We show here that sequences of sounds varying in brightness of timbre are processed with the same efficiency as pitch sequences. The sounds used...

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Main Authors: Marion eCousineau, Samuele eCarcagno, Laurent eDemany, Daniel ePressnitzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2013.00127/full