Perception of emotional expression in musical performance.

Perception of emotional expression in musical performance.

Expression in musical performance is largely communicated by the manner in which a piece is played; interpretive aspects that supplement the written score. In piano performance, timing and amplitude are the principal parameters the performer can vary. We examined the way in which such variation serves to communicate emotion by manipulating timing and amplitude in performances of classical piano...

Performance and Musical Perception Analysis

The main objective of this multidisciplinary study is to develop a cognitive model of the mechanisms of musical perception and comprehension. This model aims specifically at exploring the close interaction between the processes of segmentation and pattern recognition in musical listening from different angles including perception, musical analysis, and computer modeling. This question touches u...

Musical Networks: Parallel Distributed Perception and Performance

Some 50,000 years ago, our Neanderthal ancestors may have created the first artifacts-bone flutes--to help produce tonal music (Wilford, 1996). About a decade ago, Rumelhart and McClelland (1986) first widely introduced a new set of computational tools--parallel distributed processing (PDP) models of human cognition--that could help us further understand the musical legacy of the past 50 millen...

Cross-modal interactions in the perception of musical performance.

We investigate the dynamics of sensory integration for perceiving musical performance, a complex natural behavior. Thirty musically trained participants saw, heard, or both saw and heard, performances by two clarinetists. All participants used a sliding potentiometer to make continuous judgments of tension (a measure correlated with emotional response) and continuous judgments of phrasing (a me...

A Dynamic View of Melodic Organization and Performance Perception of Structure and Emotional Expression in Music