Two experiments examined the influence of sensory consonance on the perceptual similarity of simultaneous pairs of complex tones (harmonic intervals). In experiment 1, adults heard a sequence of five consonant intervals (each a perfect fifth, or 7 semitones) and judged whether a subsequently presented test interval was a member of the sequence. Discrimination performance was better when the tes...

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Previous empirical studies have suggested that the perceived consonance/dissonance (C/D) of a musical chord depends on its psychoacoustic smoothness (lack roughness), spectral harmonicity (perceptual fusion), and/or familiarity. We tested dependence C/D and in hearing experiment included all 19 possible trichords pitch-class set theory. In each trial, listener heard (duration: 300 or 500 ms) ra...

Consider the problem of testing s null hypotheses simultaneously. In order to deal with the multiplicity problem, the classical approach is to restrict attention to multiple testing procedures that control the familywise error rate (FWE). The closure method of Marcus et al. (1976) reduces the problem of constructing such procedures to one of constructing single tests that control the usual prob...