Expectations in Culturally Unfamiliar Music: Influences of Proximal and Distal Cues and Timbral Characteristics

Expectations in Culturally Unfamiliar Music: Influences of Proximal and Distal Cues and Timbral Characteristics

Listeners’ musical perception is influenced by cues that can be stored in short-term memory (e.g. within the same musical piece) or long-term memory (e.g. based on one’s own musical culture). The present study tested how these cues (referred to as respectively proximal and distal cues) influence the...

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Main Authors: Catherine J Stevens, Julien eTardieu, Peter eDunbar-Hall, Catherine T Best, Barbara eTillmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
tuning
expectations
timbre
Gamelan
Cross cultural
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00789/full

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