The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
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9 NEUROBIOLOGY OF HARMONY PERCEPTION , . , , . Abstract ...
relating mathematics and physics to perceptual phenomena.^1 Approaching the problem from the perspective of neurobiology, we ask ...
asserts that ‘sensory consonance...dominates the evaluation of single isolated chords...whereas harmony does not enter into the ...
consonanceand dissonanceto the vertical dimension and keep the term harmonysupra- ordinate to them. We make no assumptions about ...
into 12 discrete, equal, logarithmic steps. Each step within the octave is called a semitone, and the F 0 s of adjacent semitone ...
frequency range over which pure tones are audible to humans extends from approximately E 0 (20.6 Hz) to E 10 (21.1 kHz). For the ...
Figure 9.1). Each of the two complex tones in the interval contained the first six harmonics with equal amplitude (60 dB SPL re: ...
most consonant interval, the perfect fifth, we see a regular pattern of major and minor peaks (Figure 9.1H). The pattern with on ...
(major and minor seconds and thirds), even when two upper harmonics are presented separately (dichotically) to each ear. For the ...
To investigate the neural coding of consonance in the auditory periphery, we analysed the responses of over 100 cat auditory ner ...
A B C D E 01020304050 D 3 A 3 Post-stimulus time Voltage ISI 1 ISI 2 ISI 3 ISIall (ms) Perfect 5th Perfect 4th Minor 2nd Tritone ...
In summary, the all-order ISI distribution embedded in auditory nerve fibre firing pat- terns contains representations of the pi ...
reviews, see Refs 56 and 66). One estimate of critical bandwidth is based on the Fabove which roughness disappears. When musica ...
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roughness (line).^67 The data at x500 Hz would thus apply to the case of a harmonic interval composed of two pure tones with th ...
major sixth (or inverted minor third). The ratio 5 : 3 could also be thought of as the fifth and third harmonics of a harmonic s ...
used a Stimmgabelklangento generate tones that were ‘poor in over-tones’, found that sub- jects judged the fourth to be slightly ...
pitch relationships, as well as roughness, influence the perception of intervals and chords as consonant or dissonant in the ver ...
harmonic complex tones was impaired,^81 again consistent with observations in most right temporal lobectomy patients with partia ...
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