Browsing Empirical Musicology Review: Volume 3, Number 4 (2008) by Title

Commentary on "Comparison of Word Intelligibility in Spoken and Sung Phrases" by Lauren Collister and David Huron

Sundberg, Johan; Ternström, Sten ( 2008-10 )

We note that the intelligibility of vowels is reduced at high pitches, and propose that decreased decoding of vowels may partially account for the reported findings. Analysis of performance as a function of pitch is ...

Commentary on "Effects of Early Musical Experience on Auditory Sequence Memory" by Adam Tierney, Tonya Bergeson-Dana, and David Pisoni

Schellenberg, E. Glenn ( 2008-10 )

Tierney, Bergeson-Dana, and Pisoni (2008) conclude that their results “provide additional converging evidence that early musical experience and activity-dependent learning may selectively affect verbal rehearsal processes ...

Editor's note

Thompson, Bill ( 2008-10 )

Effects of Early Musical Experience on Auditory Sequence Memory

Tierney, Adam T.; Bergeson, Tonya R.; Pisoni, David B. ( 2008-10 )

The present study investigated a possible link between musical training and immediate memory span by testing experienced musicians and three groups of musically inexperienced subjects (gymnasts, Psychology 101 students, ...

Perception and production of linguistic and musical rhythm by Korean and English middle school students

Slobodian, Lydia N. ( 2008-10 )

I examine rhythmic tendencies of Korean and Western middle school students in linguistic and abstract musical contexts using a series of speaking and clapping experiments. Results indicate a preference in both groups ...

Review of "Perception and production of linguistic and musical rhythm by Korean and English middle school students" by Lydia N. Slobodian

Iversen, John R. ( 2008-10 )

Interest in possible cultural influences on basic rhythm perception and production has been growing, and the paper by Slobodian (2008) fits squarely in this trend, studying rhythm perception and production in a large ...

Review of Aniruddh D. Patel, Music, Language and the Brain

Demorest, Steven M. ( 2008-10 )