Transcript English Theme 8 Music and Memory “What we have done so far”

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