Rhythm complexity measures: A comparison of mathematical models of human perception and performance

ISMIR 2008 - 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 663-668

  Thul, Eric ^a   Toussaint, Godfried T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY; COMPLEXITY MEASURES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; DIRECT MEASURES; HUMAN PERCEPTION; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; HUMAN SUBJECTS; MUSIC THEORY; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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