Examined the listener-viewer's use of semantic and formal audiovisual information.

Examined the development of sensitivity to 2 musical relations significant in Western tonal music, the semitone and diatonic structure, in 2 experiments with 30 preschoolers (aged 4.2-5.9 yrs) and 40 infants (aged 9.1-11 mo). Ss were tested for their detection of a semitone change in any position of...

Administered the Hand Test to 50 young (mean age 19.94 yrs) and 50 older Atlantic Canadian adults (mean age 73.16 yrs), with 25 males and 25 females in each group, for the purposes of: (1) investigating age differences in personality; and (2) determining if the observed patterns of age differences a...

Thirty-six different binaural noises were formed by crossing six right-ear intensities of a broadband noise with the same six intensities in the left ear in a 6?X?6 factorial design. Children (6-7 years of age) and adults were presented with 2 of these 36 binaural noises on a trial and asked to indi...

Tested among 18 musicians, the psychological relevance of the musicians' concept of tonality from Preludes of J. S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier.

In 3 experiments, 34 musically trained and 34 untrained adults listened to 3 repetitions of a 5-note melodic sequence followed by a final melody with either the same tune as those preceding it or differing in 1 position by 1 semitone.

Tested 104 infants (aged 7-11 mo) for their detection of a frequency relational change of 1 semitone in a 5-note melody.

Studied performance on a direct distance estimation task in a large, complex environment as a function of variation in some members of the set of test locations. 36 1st-yr and 36 4th-yr undergraduates were asked to estimate distances for 7 sites in a campus building and to describe the strategies th...

Studied the acquisition of spatial information about a large multifunctional complex building by obtaining distance estimations, confidence judgments, and imagery reports.

Three experiments tested the recognition of transposed 3-tone melodies in a standard 2-alternative forced-choice psychophysical paradigm. Melodies were tested alone or embedded in 1 of 3 types of contexts that varied in degree of conformity to the rules of diatonicism and cadential ending. Results, ...

In two experiments, the empirical parsing of melodies was compared with predictions derived from four grouping preference rules of A Generative Theory of Tonal Music.

Star wars, music, and myth / James Buhler -- Richard Wagner and the fantasy of cinematic unity : the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the history and theory of film music / Scott D. Paulin -- Leitmotifs and musical reference in the classical film score / Justin London -- Songlines : alternative journe...

pt. 1. Current thoughts and issues in music perception and cognition. Is music the most important thing we ever did? : music development and evolution / Ian Cross -- Music psychology and music therapy : mutual support / Rudolf E. Radocy & Wanda B. Lathom-Radocy -- The functions of music in mutim...

How do people communicate using music? / David J. Hargreaves, Raymond Macdonald, and Dorothy Miell -- Music and meaning, ambiguity, and evolution / Ian Cross -- Music and conversation / R. Keith Sawyer -- Cognition, representation and communication. Music cognition : defining constraints on musical ...