Name that tune: identifying popular recordings from brief excerpts.
We tested listeners' ability to identify brief excerpts from popular recordings. Listeners were required to match 200- or 100-msec excerpts with the song titles and artists. Performance was well above chance levels for 200-msec excerpts and poorer but still better than chance for 100-msec excerpts. Performance fell to chance levels when dynamic (time-varying) information was disrupted by playing the 100-msec excerpts backward and when high-frequency information was omitted from the 100-msec excerpts; performance was unaffected by the removal of low-frequency information. In sum, successful identification required the presence of dynamic, high-frequency spectral information.
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Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, ON, Canada. g.schellenberg@utoronto.ca
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009146:Music; D010898:Pitch Perception; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D011930:Reaction Time; D013018:Sound Spectrography