Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Factors Affecting Perception

Factors Affecting Perception

Perception is influenced by perceptual set, context, motivation, and emotion. Perceptual set, or perceptual expectancy, refers to the tendency to perceive things in a particular way, influenced by previous experiences and expectations. This phenomenon affects the interpretation of stimuli, creating a set of mental tendencies and assumptions that impact sensory perceptions of sound, taste, touch, and sight.
An illustrative example of a perceptual set is the scenario where an airline pilot told...

Perception of Sound Waves

Perception of Sound Waves

The human ear is not equally sensitive to all frequencies in the audible range. It may perceive sound waves with the same pressure but different frequencies as having different loudness. Moreover, the perception of sound waves depends on the health of an individual's ears, which decays with age. The health of one's ears may also be affected by regular exposure to loud noises.
The pitch of a sound depends on the frequency and the pressure amplitude of the source. Two sounds of the same frequency...

Measurement: Standard Units

Measurement: Standard Units

Every measurement provides three kinds of information: the size or magnitude of the measurement (a number), a standard of comparison for the measurement (a unit), and an indication of the uncertainty of the measurement. While the number and unit are explicitly represented when a quantity is written, the uncertainty is an aspect of the errors in the measurement results.

Measurement: Derived Units

Measurement: Derived Units

The International System of Units or SI system, by international agreement, has fixed measurement units for seven fundamental properties: length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, amount of substance, and luminosity. These are called the SI base units.

Perceiving Loudness, Pitch, and Location

Perceiving Loudness, Pitch, and Location

The human brain perceives pitch through two primary mechanisms reflected in place theory and frequency theory. Each mechanism describes how sound waves are interpreted as specific pitches by the brain, offering insights into the intricate processes of auditory perception.
Place theory, or place coding, suggests that different pitches are heard because various sound waves activate specific locations along the cochlea's basilar membrane. The brain determines the pitch of a sound by identifying...

Auditory Perception

Auditory Perception

The auditory system is essential for sound perception, utilizing various critical structures. When sound waves enter the outer ear, they travel through the ear canal and cause the eardrum to vibrate. These vibrations are then transmitted to the middle ear, where three tiny bones – the malleus, incus, and stapes – amplify the sound. This amplification is crucial, as it ensures that the sound vibrations are strong enough to be conveyed to the inner ear. These vibrations then reach the cochlea, a...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Musical ability and emotion recognition in speech prosody: The role of pitch discrimination.

Psychonomic bulletin & review·2026

Same author

Music Ensemble: a large dataset on musicianship, cognition, and personality in musicians and nonmusicians.

Scientific data·2026

Same author

Does music training improve emotion recognition and cognitive abilities? Longitudinal and correlational evidence from children.

Cognition·2025

Same author

Emotional responses to musical mode: Do auditory and musical abilities play a role? Comment on "The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception" by Carraturo et al.

Physics of life reviews·2025

Same author

Associations between musical expertise and auditory processing.

Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance·2025

Same author

Author Correction: Can musical ability be tested online?

Behavior research methods·2023

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: May 24, 2026

Uncovering Beat Deafness: Detecting Rhythm Disorders with Synchronized Finger Tapping and Perceptual Timing Tasks

Uncovering Beat Deafness: Detecting Rhythm Disorders with Synchronized Finger Tapping and Perceptual Timing Tasks

Published on: March 16, 2015

Cross-cultural differences in meter perception.

Beste Kalender¹, Sandra E Trehub, E Glenn Schellenberg

¹Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada.

Psychological Research

|February 28, 2012

Summary

Exposure to diverse musical rhythms enhances the ability to perceive complex metrical structures in unfamiliar music. Familiarity with varied musical patterns improves sensitivity to musical meter, even in non-Western traditions.

More Related Videos

How to Calculate and Validate Inter-brain Synchronization in a fNIRS Hyperscanning Study

How to Calculate and Validate Inter-brain Synchronization in a fNIRS Hyperscanning Study

Published on: September 8, 2021

fMRI Mapping of Brain Activity Associated with the Vocal Production of Consonant and Dissonant Intervals

fMRI Mapping of Brain Activity Associated with the Vocal Production of Consonant and Dissonant Intervals

Published on: May 23, 2017

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: May 24, 2026

Uncovering Beat Deafness: Detecting Rhythm Disorders with Synchronized Finger Tapping and Perceptual Timing Tasks

Uncovering Beat Deafness: Detecting Rhythm Disorders with Synchronized Finger Tapping and Perceptual Timing Tasks

Published on: March 16, 2015

How to Calculate and Validate Inter-brain Synchronization in a fNIRS Hyperscanning Study

How to Calculate and Validate Inter-brain Synchronization in a fNIRS Hyperscanning Study

Published on: September 8, 2021

fMRI Mapping of Brain Activity Associated with the Vocal Production of Consonant and Dissonant Intervals

fMRI Mapping of Brain Activity Associated with the Vocal Production of Consonant and Dissonant Intervals

Published on: May 23, 2017

Area of Science:

Music Cognition
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Auditory Perception

Background:

Western music predominantly features simple meters.
Exposure to diverse musical traditions may influence auditory processing.
Perception of complex metrical structures in unfamiliar music is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how incidental exposure to varied metrical patterns affects perception of unfamiliar musical meters.
To compare the perception of simple and complex meters in Turkish music by adults with different musical backgrounds.

Main Methods:

Participants with Western music familiarity only and those with some non-Western music exposure were tested.
Perception of metrical organization was assessed using meter-violating change detection in Turkish music.
Music stimuli included both simple and complex metrical patterns.

Main Results:

Western-music-only adults detected changes in simple Turkish meters but not complex ones.
Adults with non-Western music exposure detected changes in both simple and complex Turkish meters.
The latter group performed better on simple meter patterns.

Conclusions:

Familiarity with varied metrical structures, including non-isochronous tactus, enhances sensitivity to unfamiliar music's metrical organization.
Cross-cultural musical exposure broadens the capacity for perceiving complex rhythmic patterns.