Infants' and Adults' Perception of Tone Chroma

ISBN-13: 9783639018318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 124 str.

Daniella Kim

Opis

Pitch is often described as having two perceptual correlates; pitch height, which increases with frequency, and tone chroma, which recurs at octave intervals. The perception of pitch by normal hearing adults, although widely studied, is not clearly understood. Infants' perception of pitch is even less well-understood. That is, not only is the previous literature with adults not consistent about the perceptual reality of tone chroma, but there are only a few studies studying infants' perception of pitch. This collection of studies attempts to understand and explain some of the factors that might affect pitch perception in infants and musically untrained adults. In this work, the author provides a thorough review of the pitch and tone chroma literature. Then, based on gaps and questions in the literature, explores some of the "contextual" issues that affect the perception of tone chroma by infants and musically untrained adults.

O autorze

Daniella Kim received her Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of
Washington in Seattle, Washington. Her resarch conducted in the
Infant Hearing Lab in the Department of Speech and Hearing
Sciences investigated the development of pitch perception and
the contextual factors that affect pitch perception in infants
and adults.