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Music Perception and Cognition Student Colloquium
A Music Perception and Cognition Student Colloquium, co-organized by CIRMMT and BRAMS, will be held on February 11th, 2010. These meetings are invaluable opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs whose work relates to perception and cognition to establish contacts with colleagues from neuroscience, psychology, musicology and music theory as well as for obtaining feedback on their own work.
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Feb 11, 2010 from 04:30 pm to 06:00 pm |
| Where | BRAMS |
| Contact Name | Sean Hutchins |
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Patrick Bermudez, PhD
The unusual ability of absolute pitch (AP) affords us the opportunity to study a circumscribed behaviour which can be clearly operationalized and requires complex cognitive function in its execution. It serves as a model for a number of perceptual and mnemonic functions as well as developmental interactions between biological predispositions and specific training. I will describe a few efforts made in characterizing its neural substrates and discuss a possible shift in the definition and understanding of the ability following recent findings.
Mikaela Miller
Trained musicians posses greater pitch discrimination ability (Burns & Ward, 1978), but are more prone to perceive frequency intervals categorically (Siegel & Siegel, 1977; Krumhansl, 2000). At what point, then, do musicians stop perceiving intervals categorically and begin hearing something new? The current study examines the ability of trained musicians to discriminate between short musical excerpts in 12-tone equal temperament (12-TET) and 31-tone equal temperament (31-TET). The musical stimuli for this experiment were composed by the 16th=century Italian composer and theorist Nicola Vicentino, who developed a 31-TET tuning system in his treatise Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice (1555). The excerpts were recorded and manipulated with audio-editing software to produce 12-TET and 31-TET versions of the same pieces of music. A pilot study was conducted using these stimuli, and results provide evidence that trained listeners may not always perceive the differences in interval sizes inherent to each tuning system.
The Music Perception and Cognition Student Colloquium series is organized by Michel Vallières (McGill University) and Sean Hutchins (Université de Montréal). If you are interested in presenting your work to a forthcoming Music Perception and Cognition Student Colloquia, please contact the organizers directly.
