Language and Music

Learning & memory

Demos

Here are links to sample stimuli from some of our published and in press papers:
 
Seeing Music: documenting a musical illusion (Schutz & Lipscomb, 2007, Perception)

The Virtual marimbist (Schutz & Kubovy, 2009, Canadian Acoustics)

Experiments exploring the role of causality in sensory integration (Schutz & Kubovy, 2009, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance)
   Exp 1 - Timbre manipulations
   Exp 2 - Temporal offsets
   Exp 3 - Split gestures
   Exp 4 - Written text

A series of experiments designed to "deconstruct" the salient aspects of the impact gestures. (Armontrout, Schutz, & Kubovy, 2009, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics)
   Exp 1 - Crossed gestures
   Exp 2 - Inversion and through-the-bar motion
   Exp 3 - Velocity, distance, & time
   Exp 4 - Acceleration & jerk 

Learning tones - are percussive sounds easier to remember? (Schutz, Stenafucci, Carberry, & Roth, in preparation)