Name that tune: Identifying popular recordings from brief excerpts
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Vol. 6 (4) , 641-646
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03212973
Abstract
We tested listeners' ability to identify brief excerpts from popular recordings. Listeners were required to match 200- or 100-msec excerpts with the song titles and artists. Performance was well above chance levels for 200-msec excerpts and poorer but still better than chance for 100-msec excerpts. Performance fell to chance levels when dynamic (time-varying) information was disrupted by playing the 100-msec excerpts backward and when high-frequency information was omitted from the 100-msec excerpts; performance was unaffected by the removal of low-frequency information. In sum, successful identification required the presence of dynamic, high-frequency spectral information.Keywords
This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
- Children's discrimination of melodic intervals.Developmental Psychology, 1996
- Memory for musical tempo: Additional evidence that auditory memory is absolutePerception & Psychophysics, 1996
- The stimulus duration required to identify vowels, their octave, and their pitch chromaThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1995
- Episodic encoding of voice attributes and recognition memory for spoken words.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1993
- The role of spectral and dynamic cues in imagery for musical timbre.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1992
- The role of spectral and dynamic cues in imagery for musical timbre.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1992
- Memory for the absolute pitch of familiar songsMemory & Cognition, 1989
- Psychoacoustics of a chilling soundPerception & Psychophysics, 1986
- Developmental changes in male/female voice classification by infantsInfant Behavior and Development, 1983
- Discrimination of vowel sounds of very short durationPerception & Psychophysics, 1972