Switching perception of musical meters by listening to different acoustic cues of biphasic sound stimulus.

ABSTRACT: Meter is one of the core features of music perception. It is the cognitive grouping of regular sound sequences, typically for every 2, 3, or 4 beats. Previous studies have suggested that one can not only passively perceive the meter from acoustic cues such as loudness, pitch, and duration of sound elements, but also actively perceive it by paying attention to isochronous sound events without any acoustic cues. Studying the interaction of top-down and bottom-up processing in meter perception leads to understanding the cognitive system's ability to perceive the entire structure of music. The present study aimed to demonstrate that meter perception requires the top-down process (which maintains and switches attention between cues) as well as the bottom-up process for discriminating acoustic c

SUBMITTER: Kondoh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8405023 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature