Language and Music

Learning & memory

Demos‎ > ‎

1 - Timbre

Percussive vs. non-percussive sounds



Because generally accepted theories of sensory integration suggest that visible gestures should not affect judgments of auditory tone length, I wanted to examine whether these gestures would affect the perception of other sounds.   Therefore, this experiment paired the same gestures with a variety of other instrument notes (piano, horn, clarinet, voice, and white noise) to see if they were similarly affected.  Profiles of these sounds can be seen below:

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