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Examining Whether Instrument Changes Affect Song Recognition the Way Talker Changes Affect Word Recognition

Zetzer, Emily E
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9755-1946
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1463321447

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2016, Master of Arts in Psychology, Cleveland State University, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
In this study, I examined whether or not the representations underlying music processing and spoken word recognition are similar. Previously, talker effects -an advantage for recognizing a repeated word spoken by the same talker relative to two different talkers - have been found when processing is relatively slow (McLennan & Luce, 2005). Research has previously shown that there are similarities between language and music (Patel, 2003; Lim & Goh, 2012; McMullen & Saffran 2004). Therefore, I extended previous work on talker effects to music perception by examining whether or not I would obtain instrument effects - an advantage for recognizing a repeated song played by the same instrument relative to a different instrument. That is, I compared listeners’ responses to songs were repeated across two blocks of trials when the instrument remained the same (e.g., harp to harp) and when the instruments changed (e.g., harp to trumpet). The results demonstrated that the instrument match condition was significantly faster than the instrument mismatch condition, demonstrating instrument effects. Results support the notion that the representations underlying language processing are analogous to the representations underlying music processing.
Conor T. McLennan, PhD (Committee Chair)
Kenneth E. Vail, PhD (Committee Member)
Eric S. Allard, PhD (Committee Member)
Albert F. Smith, PhD (Committee Member)
55 p.
Cognitive Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Language; Music
indexical specificity effects; talker effects; music processing; language and music

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  • Zetzer, E. E. (2016). Examining Whether Instrument Changes Affect Song Recognition the Way Talker Changes Affect Word Recognition [Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1463321447

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zetzer, Emily. Examining Whether Instrument Changes Affect Song Recognition the Way Talker Changes Affect Word Recognition. 2016. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1463321447.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zetzer, Emily. "Examining Whether Instrument Changes Affect Song Recognition the Way Talker Changes Affect Word Recognition." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1463321447

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