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Global context effect in normal and scrambled musical sequences.

B Tillmann1, E Bigand

  • 1Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Apprentissage et du Développement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. Barbara.Tillmann@dartmouth.edu

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
|October 20, 2001
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Harmonic priming, the effect where related chords are processed faster, was tested using normal and scrambled chord sequences. This priming effect persisted even when sequences were scrambled, suggesting context structure is less critical than harmonic relationships.

Area of Science:

  • Music cognition
  • Auditory perception
  • Cognitive psychology

Background:

  • Harmonic relationships in music influence chord processing.
  • The harmonic priming effect describes faster processing of harmonically related chords.
  • Contextual structure of chord sequences may modulate this effect.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the harmonic priming effect is dependent on the sequential structure of chords.
  • To compare harmonic priming in normal versus scrambled chord sequences.
  • To examine the role of context sequence integrity in harmonic priming.

Main Methods:

  • Participants listened to normal and scrambled chord sequences.
  • Harmonic priming was measured by comparing responses to harmonically related versus unrelated target chords.

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  • Sequences were scrambled by permuting chords (2x2 or 4x4).

    • Main Results:

    • Normal chord sequences were perceived as less coherent than scrambled sequences.
    • A significant harmonic priming effect was observed for both normal and scrambled sequences.
    • The magnitude of harmonic priming did not decrease in scrambled sequences.

    Conclusions:

    • The harmonic priming effect is robust and not dependent on the intact sequential structure of the context.
    • Harmonic relationships facilitate chord processing regardless of sequence coherence.
    • Activation spreading through schematic knowledge of harmony underlies priming, accumulating in short-term memory.