Perception of musical tension for nontonal orchestral timbres and its relation to psychoacoustic roughness

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-80

  Pressnitzer, Daniel ^a   McAdams, Stephen ^a,b   Winsberg, Suzanne ^a   Fineberg, Joshua ^a  

^a IRCAM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HEARING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033629666     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212061     Document Type: Article

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