1. English Theme 8 Music and Memory “What we have done so far”
Mafuyu Kitahara

2. Outline Ch1: Overview Ch2: Echoic memory & early processing
Ch3: Grouping
Ch4: Short-term & working memory

3. Ch2: Early processing uncategorized, continuous info grouped by time
overtone
timber

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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 ...

7. 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