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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Auditory Perception
  • Music Cognition

Background:

  • Top-down perceptual inference typically explains perception in ambiguous contexts.
  • Exemplar theory posits that similar memories influence perception, even with unambiguous bottom-up cues.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if specific musical memories affect beat perception universally or only in ambiguous situations.
  • To determine the pervasive influence of prior auditory experience on immediate perceptual judgments.

Main Methods:

  • Participants were exposed to 16 melodies, each presented in one of two meters.
  • Beat perception of melodies was tested in their original or a different meter.
  • Listeners rated metrical probes based on their fit with current and previously experienced meters.

Main Results:

  • Metrical probe ratings were influenced by both the test meter and the melody's previously experienced meter.
  • Prior experience with a melody's meter demonstrably affected beat perception.
  • This influence occurred even when unambiguous bottom-up beat cues were present.

Conclusions:

  • Perception is consistently shaped by detailed top-down perceptual imagery, not just during ambiguity.
  • Specific past experiences play a pervasive role in immediate auditory perception.
  • Musical memory exerts a routine influence on beat perception.