Fwd: [SpecMus] octave generalization

Another music/monkey study.

-Carl

>From: "Martin Braun" <nombraun@...>
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>Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:38:02 +0200
>Subject: [SpecMus] octave generalization
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>Thanks Kraig! What I found out particular interest were Anthony Wright's
>results on the octave in monkeys:
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>Music perception and octave generalization in rhesus monkeys
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>Wright AA, Rivera JJ, Hulse SH, Shyan M, Neiworth JJ
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>J Exp Psychol Gen 2000 Sep 129:291-307
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>Abstract
>Two rhesus monkeys were tested for octave generalization in 8 experiments by
>transposing 6- and 7-note musical passages by an octave and requiring same
>or different judgments. The monkeys showed no octave generalization to
>random-synthetic melodies, atonal melodies, or individual notes. They did
>show complete octave generalization to childhood songs (e.g., "Happy
>Birthday") and tonal melodies (from a tonality algorithm). Octave
>generalization was equally strong for 2-octave transpositions but not for
>0.5- or 1.5-octave transpositions of childhood songs. These results combine
>to show that tonal melodies form musical gestalts for monkeys, as they do
>for humans, and retain their identity when transposed with whole octaves so
>that chroma (key) is preserved. This conclusion implicates similar
>transduction, storage, processing, and relational memory of musical passages
>in monkeys and humans and has implications for nature-nurture origins of
>music perception.
>
>Martin
>
>
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