Performance on frequency‐discrimination tasks by musicians and
nonmusicians
作者:
Murray F. Spiegel,
Charles S. Watson,
期刊:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
(AIP Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 76,
issue 6
页码: 1690-1695
ISSN:0001-4966
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1121/1.391605
出版商: Acoustical Society of America
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Auditory discrimination abilities of professional musicians were compared with
those of nonmusicians. The stimuli for the frequency‐discrimination tasks were 300‐msecsinusoidal tones, 300‐msec square waves, and tone patterns consisting of ten 40‐msec tones
played sequentially. The musicians’ difference thresholds for single tones were betweenΔf /f=0.001 and 0.0045. One‐half of the nonmusicians
attained thresholds almost as low; the rest attained larger thresholds, up toΔf /f=0.017. The results for the pattern stimuli show
a clearer separation between the nonmusicians and musicians, whose median differencethresholds were about three times smaller. However, nonmusician listeners who had
previously trained with patterns not in the test set had different thresholds,substantially smaller than those obtained by the musicians. The appropriateness of
preferential recruitment of musicians for psychoacoustic research is discussed. The responses to amusical background survey and correlations between the survey items and discrimination performance are
contained in a supplement to this paper [PAPS JASMA76,
xxx‐xx].
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