Journal article
Hemispheric dominance for melody recognition in musicians and non-musicians.
- Messerli P Department of Oto-neuro-ophthalmology, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland.
- Pegna A
- Sordet N
- 1995-04-01
Published in:
- Neuropsychologia. - 1995
Acoustic Stimulation
Adolescent
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Cognition
Female
Functional Laterality
Humans
Male
Music
English
In two experiments, one with instrumental and one with synthesized tunes, 20 musicians and 20 non-musicians were requested to identify popular melodies presented dichotically. When the tempo of the melodies is fast enough to render their identification difficult, a right-ear advantage appears in the former group and a left-ear advantage in the latter, a pattern observed with both types of stimuli. It is suggested that these lateralization effects depend not only on the level of competence of the subjects, as hypothesized by Bever and Chiarello (Science, Vol. 185, pp. 537-539, 1974), but also on the musical features of the stimuli.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1016/0028-3932(94)00123-7
- PMID 7617151
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/145336
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