Pitch chroma discrimination, generalization, and transfer tests of octave equivalence in humans

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1742-1760

  Hoeschele, Marisa ^a   Weisman, Ronald G ^b   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Music cognition; Music training; Note range discrimination; Octave equivalence; Octave generalization; Psychoacoustics; Sound recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MUSIC; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84870849446     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0364-2     Document Type: Article

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