As part of a major collaborative research initiative, Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS), we developed a protocol for obtaining audiovisual information reflecting aspects of the ability to sing. We also developed a digital library prototype, the Children's International Medi...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...