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Sensory versus cognitive components in harmonic priming.

Emmanuel Bigand1, Bénédicte Poulin, Barbara Tillmann

  • 1Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Apprentissage et du Développement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. emmanuel.bigand@u-bourgogne.fr

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
|April 3, 2003
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Cognitive priming in music perception can override sensory priming, even at very fast musical tempi. This suggests cognitive processes are fast-acting and compete with sensory influences in music.

Area of Science:

  • Music cognition
  • Auditory perception
  • Cognitive neuroscience

Background:

  • Musical priming involves how prior musical stimuli influence responses to subsequent stimuli.
  • Both sensory (low-level acoustic) and cognitive (higher-level meaning-based) processes contribute to musical priming.
  • Understanding the interplay between these components is crucial for explaining music perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relative strength and temporal dynamics of sensory versus cognitive priming in music.
  • To determine how musical features like harmonic function and pitch similarity affect priming.
  • To examine the influence of tempo on the competition between sensory and cognitive priming.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1 manipulated harmonic function and shared pitch classes between prime and target chords.

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  • Experiment 2 examined the temporal course of priming across various tempi (300 ms, 150 ms, 75 ms per chord).
  • Participants included both musicians and nonmusicians, with tempo exposure varied.

    • Main Results:

    • Cognitive priming consistently dominated sensory priming across tested tempi for all participants.
    • This cognitive dominance persisted even at very fast tempi (300 ms and 150 ms).
    • At extremely fast tempi (75 ms), cognitive priming still influenced perception, particularly for those initially exposed to slower tempi.

    Conclusions:

    • Cognitive priming acts as a rapid process that competes with, and often overrides, sensory priming in music perception.
    • The temporal dynamics suggest cognitive factors play a significant role even under demanding processing conditions.
    • Individual differences in tempo exposure may modulate the interaction between sensory and cognitive priming mechanisms.