Prior neuroimaging work on visual perceptual expertise has focused on changes in the visual system, ignoring possible effects of acquiring expert visual skills in nonvisual areas. We investigated expertise for reading musical notation, a skill likely to be associated with multimodal abilities. We compared brain activity in music-reading experts and novices during perception of musical notation,...

The beneficial effects of musical training are not limited to enhancement of musical skills, but extend to language skills. Here, we review evidence that musical training can enhance reading ability. First, we discuss five subskills underlying reading acquisition-phonological awareness, speech-in-noise perception, rhythm perception, auditory working memory, and the ability to learn sound patter...

We propose a new method for the musical pitch and instrument estimation of polyphony for transcription. Most of previous methods are based on the extraction of the pitch frequencies. But the extraction of the pitches is di cult since the musical sound has many harmonic components and these components are changed complicatedly depending on the tones and musical instruments. The principle of our ...

Is music-making rich and open? Rich, yes, as evident from the many varieties of emotional and social content that a listener can draw out of music, meaningful from many (although not all) perspectives (Cross and Tolbert 2008). Even unusually constrained music styles such as minimalism often convey rich signification, their sonic simplicity having a social meaning within wider musical culture. M...

To study the influence of musical education on emotional reactions to dissonance, we examined self-reports and physiological responses to dissonant and consonant musical excerpts in listeners with low (LE: n=15) and high (HE: n=13) musical experience. The results show that dissonance induces more unpleasant feelings and stronger physiological responses in HE than in LE participants, suggesting ...

Multiagent systems can be used in a myriad of musical applications, including electro-acoustic composition, automatic musical accompaniment and the study of emergent musical societies. Previous works in this field were usually concerned with solving very specific musical problems and focused on symbolic processing, which limited their widespread use, specially when audio exchange and spatial in...

With the rise of portal sites for image-file download of musical scores, the electronic distribution of musical scores, an activity in progress of 15 years, has attracted increased attention. We describe several data models for score distribution and emphasize the one used in the MuseData archive of musical data (1984–). This archive (containing substantial quantities of the music of Bach, Hand...

Optical Music Recognition (OMR), sometimes also called musical score recognition or simply score recognition, is the process of automatically extracting musical meaning from a printed musical score. Music notation provides a rich description of the composer’s ideas, but ultimately sheet music is open to some degree of interpretation by performers. Performance considerations aside, the advantage...

PURPOSE To investigate the relations between musical experience, auditory processing and phonological awareness of groups of 5-year-old children with and without musical experience. METHODS Participants were 56 5-year-old subjects of both genders, 26 in the Study Group, consisting of children with musical experience, and 30 in the Control Group, consisting of children without musical experien...

Musical memory was tested in Alzheimer patients and in healthy older adults using long-term and short-term memory tasks. Long-term memory (LTM) was tested with a recognition procedure using unfamiliar melodies. Short-term memory (STM) was evaluated with same/different judgment tasks on short series of notes. Musical memory was compared to verbal memory using a task that used pseudowords (LTM) o...