An Investigation of Hemispheric Specialization for the Pitch and Rhythmic Aspects of Melodic Stimuli

• Main Author: Herrick, Carole L. (Carole Lynn)
• Other Authors: Rainbow, Edward L.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1981
• Subjects: hemispheric specialization; melodic processing; musical ability; musical pitch; Musical pitch.; Musical ability > Testing.; Auditory perception.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331335/

This study's purpose was to investigate the phenomenon of hemispheric specialization for the pitch and rhythmic aspects of melody. Its research problems were to investigate the Influence of pitch, rhythm, and training on hemispheric specialization for pitch-plus-rhythm melodic fragments. A final problem was to examine the relationship between dlchotic ear scores and eye movements evidenced during melodic processing. Twenty musicians and twenty nonmuslcians, right-handed and equally divided as to gender, participated in the project. Accepted dlchotic testing and eye behavior indexing procedures were implemented to investigate each research problem. The dlchotic tape produced for the study contained five subtests In which pitch activity was variously greater than, less than, or equal to rhythmic activity.