Effects of emergent-level structure on melodic processing difficulty

Frank A. Russo; William Forde Thompson; Lola L. Cuddy

doi:10.1525/MP.2015.33.1.96

Effects of emergent-level structure on melodic processing difficulty

Frank A. Russo^*, William Forde Thompson, Lola L. Cuddy

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FOUR EXPERIMENTS ASSESSED THE INFLUENCE of emergent-level structure on melodic processing difficulty. Emergent-level structure was manipulated across experiments and defined with reference to the Implication-Realization model of melodic expectancy (Narmour, 1990, 1992, 2000). Two measures of melodic processing difficulty were used to assess the influence of emergent-level structure: serial-reconstruction and cohesion ratings. In the serial-reconstruction experiment (Experiment 1), reconstruction was more efficient for melodies with simple emergent-level structure. In the cohesion experiments (Experiments 2-4), ratings were higher for melodies with simple emergent-level structure, and the advantage was generally greater in the presence of simple surface-level structure. Results indicate that emergent-level structure as defined by the model can influence melodic processing difficulty.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	96-109
Number of pages	14
Journal	Music Perception
Volume	33
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/MP.2015.33.1.96
Publication status	Published - Sept 2015
Externally published	Yes

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