English Theme 8 Music and Memory “What we have done so far” Mafuyu Kitahara 2007-01-22
Outline Ch1: Overview Ch2: Echoic memory & early processing Ch3: Grouping Ch4: Short-term & working memory
Ch2: Early processing uncategorized, continuous info grouped by time overtone timber
Other key concepts in Ch2 Representation: may be prior to language Habituation: repeating the same stimuli neurons' response decrease pass out of the attention e.g. air-conditioner Musical Time single 2ms 4ms 10ms 2ms*100
Ch3: Grouping (primitive) Primitive grouping: bottom-up, basic determined by nervous system tends to look for a single regular source based on boundaries and closure include melodic and rhythmic grouping based on proximity, similarity, & continuity
Ch3: Grouping (higher) intensification: multiple effects parallelism: higher level similarity Learned grouping objective set: unique to a piece, e.g. theme and its transformation subjective set: part of a style over may pieces, e.g. A > B > SABI > B ...
Ch4: Short-term Memory Limit: 7±2 Rehearsal But, chunking at higher level units is possible Rehearsal to keep in STM to send to LTM