Reviews the significance of acoustics in environmental design, noting that research on the office environment reveals that acoustics is a primary source of dissatisfaction. Problems of the hearing impaired are discussed, and design suggestions are offered. The significance of acoustic images, memori...

Advocates that a framework for exploring the psychological effects of musical soundtracks (MSTs) should focus on meaning, structure, memory, awareness, and experimental aesthetics. MSTs concern 2 art forms (music and cinema) and 2 sensory modalities (auditory and visual). As such, they touch many as...

Discusses the use of the 68040-based NeXT computer system for studies of auditory sequencing in which Ss track the time of occurrence of a sequence of tones, using a mouse that controls the position of sliders represented on the computer screen. The computer produces random orders of stimulus sequen...

The escalation of research in both the psychology of music and the psychology of aging has led to a natural convergence on a new shared domain, that of psychogeromusicology. The present volume of Psychomusicology represents different views of this domain: melodic memory, rhythmic processes, neurophy...

36 1st- and 36 4th-yr undergraduates of 2 levels of experience with a complex environment estimated distances between all pairs of 7 locations drawn from 1 of 3 contexts varying in relative salience of the vertical over the horizontal plane. Subsequently, Ss provided ratings of their extent of use o...

Discusses the potential of the Commodore Amiga as a digital synthesizer for research and demonstration in psychoacoustics and memory. Economy, ease of use, flexibility, portability, and accuracy outweigh disadvantages of narrow bandwidth, narrow dynamic range, and storage limitations for many applic...

Investigated the effects of musical soundtracks on 25 undergraduates' attitudes toward figures in a short animated film. In a preliminary study and in the main experiment, Ss saw the film accompanied by 1 of 2 soundtracks or with no soundtrack, or heard 1 of the 2 soundtracks alone. In the main...

Describes an adaptation of the first stages of Y. Oura and K. Eguchi's (1981) technique for training absolute pitch in preschoolers to 8 North American Ss (aged 2 yrs 10 mo to 4 yrs 11 mo) and 4 adults (aged 22-27 yrs). Most children and all adults mastered a transposed chord discrimination tas...

Investigated the perception of microtonal scales in a melodic identification task.

Addresses the question of what contribution music makes to the emotional aspects of film.

Tonality induction (TI) is the natural outcome of acoustic redundancies in music and the predisposition of the brain to represent these redundancies.

61 Ss (aged 16-38 yrs) with a wide range of formal music training were presented with ascending and descending C major scales, each followed by a single probe tone drawn from the 13-note chromatic scale. Ss were asked to decide whether the fit of the probe to the preceding context was good or poor.

Measured and compared accuracy of recognition for short (3-note) transposed melodic sequences with accuracy predicted by 3 models of recognition, each of which described a different degree of abstraction and synthesis of the musical intervals contained in the sequence.

Examined 2 models that quantified the effects of tonality on accuracy and RT in an intervening-tone pitch-comparison task.

The present article proposes that music cognition research provides insight into the perception of formal structure in film, taking as support an analysis of the film The Red Violin. The analysis reveals similarities between film and music with respect to 3 kinds of musical structure: central refere...