Perceptual scaling of synthesized musical timbres: Common dimensions, specificities, and latent subject classes
- S. McAdams, S. Winsberg, S. Donnadieu, G. Soete, Jochen Krimphoff
- PsychologyPsychological Research
- 1995
The model with latent classes and specificities gave a better fit to the data and made the acoustic correlates of the common dimensions more interpretable, suggesting that musical timbres possess specific attributes not accounted for by these shared perceptual dimensions.
Enhanced pure-tone pitch discrimination among persons with autism but not Asperger syndrome
- A. Bonnel, S. McAdams, L. Mottron
- PsychologyNeuropsychologia
- 1 July 2010
Acoustic correlates of timbre space dimensions: a confirmatory study using synthetic tones.
- A. Caclin, S. McAdams, Bennett K. Smith, S. Winsberg
- PhysicsJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
- 28 June 2005
Listeners presented with carefully controlled synthetic tones use attack time, spectral centroid, and spectrum fine structure in dissimilarity rating experiments, and spectral flux appears as a less salient timbre parameter, its salience depending on the number of other dimensions varying concurrently in the stimulus set.
Hearing a mistuned harmonic in an otherwise periodic complex tone.
- W. Hartmann, S. McAdams, B. K. Smith
- PhysicsJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
- 1 October 1990
The data show that listeners lose the ability to segregate mistuned harmonics at high frequencies where synchronous neural firing vanishes, a loss that argues against models of pitch shifts that are based entirely upon partial masking.
Feature dependence in the automatic identification of musical woodwind instruments.
- J. C. Brown, O. Houix, S. McAdams
- PhysicsJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
- 27 February 2001
Comparison to a human perception experiment with sounds produced by the same instruments indicates that, under these conditions, computers do as well as humans in identifying woodwind instruments.
The Functional Anatomy of Sound Intensity Discrimination
- P. Belin, S. McAdams, Y. Samson
- PsychologyJournal of Neuroscience
- 15 August 1998
It is suggested that discrimination of sound intensity involves two different cortical networks: a supramodal right frontoparietal network responsible for allocation of sensory attentional resources, and a region of secondary auditory cortex specifically involved in sensory computation of soundintensity differences.
Separate Neural Processing of Timbre Dimensions in Auditory Sensory Memory
- A. Caclin, E. Brattico, S. McAdams
- PsychologyJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- 1 December 2006
Results expand to timbre dimensions a property of separation of the representation in sensory memory that has already been reported between basic perceptual attributes (pitch, loudness, duration, and location) of sound sources.
Recognition of sound sources and events
- S. McAdams
- Physics
- 1 April 1993
Perspectives on the Contribution of Timbre to Musical Structure
- S. McAdams
- PsychologyComputer Music Journal
- 1 September 1999
An overview of some (but not all) of the work on timbre performed by the Music Perception and Cognition team at IRCAM is presented, and the role of timbre in the creation and perceptual organization of musical materials is addressed.
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