Binaural integration of melodic patterns

Binaural integration of melodic patterns.

Training Grant MH-21001. I am especially indebted to R. Erickson for valuable discussions concerning channeling principles in music. Requests for reprints should be sent to Diana Deutsch, Department of Psychology, C-009, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 It has been argued on a number of grounds that we have difficulty in integrating rapid streams of acoustic inf...

Representing Melodic Patterns as Networks of Elaborations

Previous discussions of musical pattern have underlined difficulties in seeking pattern as a sequence of pitches, or of intervals or of other local and atomic features. This paper describes a manner of representing melodies through a hierarchical structure of elaboration, derived from concepts common in music theory (in particular, the concept of reduction found in the work of Schenker and of L...

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Maximum Entropy Model for Melodic Patterns

We introduce a model for music generation where melodies are seen as a network of interacting notes. Starting from the principle of maximum entropy we assign to this network a probability distribution, which is learned from an existing musical corpus. We use this model to generate novel musical sequences that mimic the style of the corpus. Our main result is that this model can reproduce high-o...

Spectral integration in binaural signal detection

For both monaural and binaural masking, the spectral content of the masker and of the signal to be detected are important stimulus properties influencing the detection process. It is generally accepted that the auditory system separates the incoming signals in several frequency bands. It is not clear a priori, however, how the auditory system combines these separate band-limited signals. In thi...