Like many other cognitive processes, the perception of music involves processes and structural considerations that are highly relational in nature. To date, no physiologically plausible model has been used to simulate and explain how infants perceive melodic content. Here we used DORA (Discovery Of Relations by Analogy; Doumas et al., 2008), a domain-general symbolic-connectionist model of rela...

In this paper, we address the problem of melodic string matching that enables identification of varied (ornamented) instances of a given melodic pattern. To this aim, a new set of edit distance operations adequate for pitch interval strings is introduced. Insertion, deletion and replacement operations are abolished as irrelevant. Consolidation and fragmentation are retained, but adapted to the ...

The nature of melodic similarity is interrogated through a survey of the different means by which the phenomenon has been studied, examination of methods for measuring melodic similarity, a Monte Carlo analysis of data from the experiment which formed the basis for the ‘ground truth’ used in the MIREX 2005 contest on melodic similarity, and examples of interest in the music of Mozart. Melodic s...

Descriptive models of music cognition propose various principles as underlying melodic expectancy, however there is very little discussion regarding the processes involved in the acquisition of melodic expectation. To explore the potential role of learning processes, a simple recurrent network (SRN) was trained on a set of musical sequences to examine the degree to which the principles describe...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether specific domains of musical perception (temporal and melodic domains) predict the word-level reading skills of eight- to ten-year-old children (n = 235) with reading difficulties, normal quotient of intelligence, and no previous exposure to music education classes. METHOD A general-specific solution of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA), which...

In India many Rock Pillars had occupied a distinguished and special place in Architecture. Especially the Musical Pillars, which produce melodic tones when tapped. They can also be called natural singing Rocks. Among temples different regions of Tamilnadu with are Nellai Appar Temple Thirunelveli, Meenakshi Amman Madurai, Thaanumaal Ayan Susindram, Alwaar Thirunagari Shembagaraama Nallur Airaav...

In this paper, we propose a stochastic representation of a sung melodic contour, called stochastic phase representation (SPR), which can characterize both musical-note information and the dynamics of singing behaviors included in the melodic contour. The SPR is constructed by fitting probability distribution functions to F0 trajectories in the F0-∆F0 phase plane. Since fluctuations in singing c...