Learning Novel Musical Pitch via Distributional Learning

Autor/inn/en	Ong, Jia Hoong; Burnham, Denis; Stevens, Catherine J.
Titel	Learning Novel Musical Pitch via Distributional Learning
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43 (2017) 1, S.150-157 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000286
Schlagwörter	Music Education; Teaching Methods; Acoustics; Music Activities; Auditory Perception; Inferences; Adults; Experimental Psychology; Pretests Posttests; Auditory Stimuli; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musikerziehung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Akustik; Musikalische Aktion; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Inference; Inferenz; Experimentelle Psychologie; Auditive Stimulation; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Because different musical scales use different sets of intervals and, hence, different musical pitches, how do music listeners learn those that are in their native musical system? One possibility is that musical pitches are acquired in the same way as phonemes, that is, via distributional learning, in which learners infer knowledge from the distributional structure of their input. In this study, we investigate whether novel musical pitch can be acquired distributionally. Nonmusician adults were trained on a continuum spanning a novel musical chord minimal pair (i.e., a novel chord and a mistuned version of that chord) in which the continuum was presented either in a bimodal distribution, with a modal peak at each end of the continuum, or in a unimodal distribution, with a single central modal peak. Discrimination of target minimal pairs was assessed before and after exposure to the distribution. Distributional learning would be said to occur if learners in the bimodal condition, but not those in the unimodal condition, showed evidence of learning, as indexed by improvement in discriminating the minimal pair from pretest to posttest. This indeed was the outcome, suggesting that the building blocks of musical melody--musical pitch--can be acquired using distributional learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01