The effect of musicianship, contralateral noise, and ear of presentation on the detection of changes in temporal fine structure

Emilia Tarnowska; Andrzej Wicher; Brian C. J. Moore

doi:10.1121/1.5114820

journal article Jul 01, 2019

The effect of musicianship, contralateral noise, and ear of presentation on the detection of changes in temporal fine structure

Emilia Tarnowska Andrzej Wicher Brian C. J. Moore

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 146 No. 1 pp. 1-10 · Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

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Abstract

Musicians are better than non-musicians at discriminating changes in the fundamental frequency (F0) of harmonic complex tones. Such discrimination may be based on place cues derived from low resolved harmonics, envelope cues derived from high harmonics, and temporal fine structure (TFS) cues derived from both low and high harmonics. The present study compared the ability of highly trained violinists and non-musicians to discriminate changes in complex sounds that differed primarily in their TFS. The task was to discriminate harmonic (H) and frequency-shifted inharmonic (I) tones that were bandpass filtered such that the components were largely or completely unresolved. The effect of contralateral noise and ear of presentation was also investigated. It was hypothesized that contralateral noise would activate the efferent system, helping to preserve the neural representation of envelope fluctuations in the H and I stimuli, thereby improving their discrimination. Violinists were significantly better than non-musicians at discriminating the H and I tones. However, contralateral noise and ear of presentation had no effect. It is concluded that, compared to non-musicians, violinists have a superior ability to discriminate complex sounds based on their TFS, and this ability is unaffected by contralateral stimulation or ear of presentation.

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Published: Jul 01, 2019
Vol/Issue: 146(1)
Pages: 1-10

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Emilia Tarnowska

Department of Psychoacoustics and Room Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University , Poznań, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poland

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Andrzej Wicher

Department of Psychoacoustics and Room Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University , Poznań, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poland

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Brian C. J. Moore

Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge , Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom

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Emilia Tarnowska, Andrzej Wicher, Brian C. J. Moore (2019). The effect of musicianship, contralateral noise, and ear of presentation on the detection of changes in temporal fine structure. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5114820

The effect of musicianship, contralateral noise, and ear of presentation on the detection of changes in temporal fine structure

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