The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure.
<h4>Introduction</h4>To survive, organisms need to organize perceptual input into coherent, usable structures. Research has illuminated the potential role of frequency of occurrence and duration as cues to extract statistical regularities from our environment. Musical stimuli provide a u...
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| author | Michael E Lantz Anja-Xiaoxing Cui Lola L Cuddy |
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| description | <h4>Introduction</h4>To survive, organisms need to organize perceptual input into coherent, usable structures. Research has illuminated the potential role of frequency of occurrence and duration as cues to extract statistical regularities from our environment. Musical stimuli provide a unique opportunity to study how these cues are used to organize auditory input into higher level perceptual entities, i.e., pitch structure, and to assess the influence of cognitive schema.<h4>Methods</h4>To examine the relative importance of these two cues in pitch structure perception, we constructed novel tone sequences in which frequency of occurrence and duration cues were pitted against each other. We assessed perceived pitch structure in musically trained and untrained listeners using a probe tone paradigm.<h4>Results</h4>In all experiments, a 3-tiered hierarchy of pitch structure emerged, with highest ratings for tones of longer duration, next highest for shorter, more frequent tones and lowest for probe tones that did not occur in the sequence. The hierarchy did not reflect assimilation to Western tonal schema.<h4>Discussion</h4>Our results argue against theories positing the same mechanism for the processing of duration and frequency of occurrence, and that duration is weighted preferentially. We further suggest that the organization of perceptual information will proceed according to whatever information is relevant, available, and most easily acquired. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f365b2567884a828a909020dbf74ddd2022-12-21T22:35:47ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032020-01-01159e023958210.1371/journal.pone.0239582The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure.Michael E LantzAnja-Xiaoxing CuiLola L Cuddy<h4>Introduction</h4>To survive, organisms need to organize perceptual input into coherent, usable structures. Research has illuminated the potential role of frequency of occurrence and duration as cues to extract statistical regularities from our environment. Musical stimuli provide a unique opportunity to study how these cues are used to organize auditory input into higher level perceptual entities, i.e., pitch structure, and to assess the influence of cognitive schema.<h4>Methods</h4>To examine the relative importance of these two cues in pitch structure perception, we constructed novel tone sequences in which frequency of occurrence and duration cues were pitted against each other. We assessed perceived pitch structure in musically trained and untrained listeners using a probe tone paradigm.<h4>Results</h4>In all experiments, a 3-tiered hierarchy of pitch structure emerged, with highest ratings for tones of longer duration, next highest for shorter, more frequent tones and lowest for probe tones that did not occur in the sequence. The hierarchy did not reflect assimilation to Western tonal schema.<h4>Discussion</h4>Our results argue against theories positing the same mechanism for the processing of duration and frequency of occurrence, and that duration is weighted preferentially. We further suggest that the organization of perceptual information will proceed according to whatever information is relevant, available, and most easily acquired.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239582 |
| spellingShingle | Michael E Lantz Anja-Xiaoxing Cui Lola L Cuddy The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure. PLoS ONE |
| title | The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure. |
| title_full | The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure. |
| title_fullStr | The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure. |
| title_short | The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure. |
| title_sort | role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239582 |
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