PSY387H5 Lecture 9: Tutorial 9
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Method: instead of hearing 8 songs like in tutorial, they heard many more songs (all happy birthday song in french, previous study had professionals with formal music training. In this study: recruited people who were non-expert. Of the 3 different errors expecting in the songs: pitch interval deviation common error. The more spread there is in the variance in the vertical direction, the more disagreement there was between people at that number of the sample: makes sense if you look at the figures. Nonexperts don"t seem to be using # of contour errors or # of modulations. Experts: # of modulations is also significant: experts seem to be using pitch deviaions and # of modulations differentiation. Would the results have changed using a different timbre: we are less likely to notice a less out of tune note.
